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'''Common Name:''' The Golden Chain Orchid / The Thread-Like Dendrochilum<br />
'''Scented:''' yes<br />
'''Light Requirements:''' partial shade<br />
'''Temperature Requirements:''' cool to hot<br />
'''Blooms:''' spring to early summerbr />
'''Synonyms:''' ''Acoridium filiforme'' [Lindley]Rolfe 1904; ''Dendrochilum filiforme'' var. ''ramosii'' (Ames) L.O.Williams 1937; ''Dendrochilum ramosii'' Ames 1913 publ. 1914; ''Platyclinis filiformis'' (Lindl.) Benth. ex Hemsl. 1881
A miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing, miniature Philippine species with conical or ellipsoid-fusiform pseudobulbs covered with papery sheaths carrying 2 apical, erect, petiolate, narrowly linear-ligulate, subobtuse leaves needing good light and even year round watering that blooms in the spring to early summer on a 60cm, pendulous-arcuate, slender, crowded, many flowered [100+], inflorescence arising from the apex of a newly developing pseudobulb and having papery, convolute bracts that are equal to the ovary in length. This species has highly fragrant flowers that are arranged in 2 rows.
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