Dipodium pictum (Lindl.) Rchb.f., Xenia Orchid. 2: 15 (1862)

Name meaning 'spotted or speckled' referring to the flowers.

Synonyms
Wailesia picta Lindl.

Description
A large sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with an elongate stem rooting at any point with imbricating, basally clasping, closely 2 ranked, blades turned outwards, entirely conduplicate leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, to 30 to 45 cm + long, 10 to 30 flowered, racemose inflorescence.

Ecology
Growing in lowland, hill and montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1100 meters.

Uses

Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines.

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