Dendrochilum saccolabium Kraenzl. 1916 SECTION Acoridium [Nees & Meyen] Pfitzer & Kranzl.

Plant and Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids

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Common Name The Sack-Like Lip Dendrochilum

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations above 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with tapered, single leafed pseudobulbs with a leathery, infolded leaf and blooms in the falland winter on an semi-arching, densely many [40] flowered inflorescence arising with a new growth and has flowers that do not open fully because of the spotted bracts semi-enveloping them.

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;