Dendrochilum tenuibulbum (Ames) L.O.Williams 1952 SECTION Convoluta
Plant and Flowers Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name or Meaning The Delicate Bulbed Dendrochilum
Flower Size .22" [6mm]
Found in on Luzon and Panay of the Philippines among mosses on tree trunks in bright light at elevations around 950 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with oval pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate leaf that blooms on an upright, arching to pendulous, longer than the leaf, to 4" [10 cm] long, to 20 flowered inflroescence ariwsing on a new growth.
Synonyms *Acoridium tenuibulbum Ames 1937
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of The Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide;
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