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Orchid Species: Dendrolirium ornatum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrolirium ornatum is an orchid species identified by Blume in 1825.
ORIGIN: A small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte that is a rare species from the Himalayas, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and the Philippines in lower montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte that is a rare species from the Himalayas, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and the Philippines in lower montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters with dark brown, stiff, woody roots arising from laterally compressed, cylindrical pseudobulbs each separated by 6 [15 cm] and enveloped by basal sheaths carrying 3 to 5 fleshy, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong, acute, narrowing basally into an open channelled petiolate base leaves with the uppermost two being more persistent that blooms in the spring and summer on a ascending or arching, 18 [45 cm] long, several to many flowered racemose inflorescence that has brown hairs and large ovate-lanceolate, orange to red brown bracts and carrying flowers that have a fragrance of vanilla and do not open well.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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