Dendrochilum propinquum Ames 1920 SECTION Eurybrachium

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Tony Watkinson Copyright ©

Common Name The Closely Related Dendrochilum

Flower Size 3/8" [9mm]

Found only in the Philippines in montane forests at elevations around 500 to 700 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with narrowly pear-shaped, close set, tapering above pseudpbulbs enveloped in youth by tubular sheaths, soon evanescent carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-lanceolate, leathery, acute, marginal vein prominent, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a downward bent, slender, 4.8" to 6.4" [12 to 16 cm] long, 2 ranked many flowered inflorescence with persitent, chaff-like, imbricate, obtuse floral bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo;