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Acoridium smithianum is an orchid species identified by Ames in 1937. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrochilum smithianum.
ORIGIN: Found in the Philippines at elevations around 500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clsoe set, elliptical to cylindric, tapering from the base to the apex pseudobulbs with a leathery, linear to lanceolate, 3 to 5 veined leaf and blooms in the winter and spring on a lateral, arching, densely many [30] flowered inflorescence with glumaceous-like, ovate bracts . This species is similar to D pulcherrimum but differs in having paler flowers, longer inflorescence and flowers that open wider and the tips of the floral segments do not curve inward much and the plant is much more robust and larger.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/6 inches [4 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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