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Dicerostylis kinabaluensis is an orchid species identified by Carr in 1935. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Hylophila lanceolata.
ORIGIN: Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra and the Philippines in dark humid, hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with basally decumbent and then erect stem carrying 6 to 7, ovate, acuminate, acute, larger below and smaller above, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base enveloped by tubular sheaths leaves that bloom in the spring on an erect, 6 [15 cm] long, densely many flowered, terete, sparsely pubescent, olive inflorescence with 3 tubular sheaths and triangular-lanceolate, gradually long, acuminate floral bracts and carrying wide open flowers that face in all directions and about 1/4 of them open at any one time..
FLOWER SIZE: 0.35 inches [7.5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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