Dendrochilum pangasinanense Ames, Schedul. Orchid. 6: 29 (1923).
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| Dendrochilum pangasinanense Ames, Photo by José Santos da Costa |
Latinh Name:
Dendrochilum pangasinanense Ames
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
No synonyms are recorded for this name.
English Name:
The Pangasinan Dendrochilum (A Province of the Philippines).
Description:
With erect, slender, semi-spindle-shaped, yellowish in maturity pseudobulbs subtended by elongate soon fibrous sheaths and carrying elliptic-oblong, heavily veined, petiolate, terete below the middle leaf that envelops the inflorescence when first arising [synanthous] as a slender erect, relatively stout, terete to somewhat compressed, subglabrous, and becomes 25 cm long, racemose inflorescence with 12 to many distichously alternating, fragant flowers in a nodding to pendant rachis occurring in the late spring.
Distribution:
Philippines.
Ecological:
On rocks along roadsides in full sun at elevations of 600 to 900 m as a miniature sized, warm growing lithophyte.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the late spring.
Flower size:
9.0 mm.
Cultivation:
Plant can be grown from warm areas with medium to bright light. Pot with fine bark and perlite or sphagnum moss. Plant prefers dry periods between watering. Reduce watering during the winter. Water about once a week.
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