Dilochia rigida (Ridl.) J.J.Wood 1993 Photo by © Th. Nordhausen and Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Rigid Dilochia

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found only in Borneo in lower to upper mossy, montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 2600 meters as a small to large sized, warm to cool growing, monopodial, terrestrial or epiphytic orchid with a creeping, branching rhizome giving rise to slender, erect, rigid stem enveloped basally by persistent leaf sheaths and carrying disitichous, spreading, linear, basally narrowing, obtuse or minutely unequally bilobed apically, rigid, thick, coriaceous, slightly revolute margins, carinate below leaves that are articulate to the leaf sheaths below that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, unbranched, pendant to reflexed, 3 to 7 flowered, .4" [1 cm] long, fractiflex inflorescence with broadly ovate, cymbiform, conduplicate, dorsally carinate towards the apex, subacute to acute floral bracts that envelope the pedicel and ovary and carry slightly, sweetly scented flowers

Synonyms Arundina gracilis Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920; *Bromheadia rigida Ridl. 1893; Dilochia gracilis (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Carr 1935

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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