Diplocentrum congestum Wight 1851 Photo by © Rudolf Jenny and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Another Inflorescence Photo by © G Meyer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing Photo and drawing courtesy of © Enchanting Kerala Website
EARLY
Common Name The Congested Diplocentrum
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in southern India along roadside trees as a miniature sized, warm growing monopodial epiphyte with a short, pendulous stem carrying a few, broadly lanceolate, recurved, green mottled with purple, unequally bilobed apically, becoming conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on 1 to a few, axillary, peduncle short, stout, pendent, 3.6" [9 cm] long, densely few to many flowered inflorescence with minute, apiculate floral bracts and carrying lightly fragrant flowers
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Indian Orchids, A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 6 1995 as D recurvum photo fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018
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