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Dendrolirium sulcatum is an orchid species identified by Blume in 1825. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Phreatia sulcata.
ORIGIN: Found in Thailand, peninsular Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas and the Philippines in shady lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing orchid with close set, fleshy, globose to somewhat angular pseudobulbs enveloped by 1 to 2 leaf-like sheaths and carrying a single narrowly lanceolate, acute, shiny green above, matte and paler green below leaf that blooms in the later winter on a basal, on a developing pseudobulb, usually longer than the leaf, terete becoming angular, 10 to 12 [20 to 30 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.09 inches [2 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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