Dendrochilum yuccaefolium L.O. Williams 1937 Sect Platyclinis [Benth] Pfitzer . Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence

Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids

Common Name The Yucca-Like Leaf Dendrochilum

Flower Size 3/5" [1.5 cm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations around 500 meters on the trunks and lower branches of trees with good air circulation and high humidity as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with single leafed, narrwoly cylindric, furrowed pseudobulbs with a stiff, linear-lanceolate leaf and blooms in the winter and spring on an semi-arching, short, densely many [30] flowered inflorescence arisng with a new growth.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of The Philippines Cootes 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;