Epigeneium acuminatum (Rolfe) Summerh. 1957 SECTION Racemosum Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©

Common Name The Gradually Tapering Point Epigeneium

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in the Philippines in moss forests at elevations above 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 4-angled, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect then arching, 12 to 20" [30 to 50 cm] long, few to 15 flowered, racemose inflorescence carrying fragrant, very showy, long lasting flowers

Synonyms *Dendrobium acuminatum Rolfe 1905; Katherinea acuminata (Rolfe) A.D.Hawkes 1956; Sarcopodium acuminatum Rolfe 1910

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 photo ok; Orchidaniana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Australia Vol 13 No 1 2001 photo; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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