Dendrobium acerosum Lindl. 1841 SECTION Strongyle

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech.

Common Name The Pointed Dendrobium - In Thailand - Kluai mai mue nang - Khao phae

Flower Size .2 to .6" [.5 to 1.5 cm]

Found in Borneo, Suluwesi, Sumatra, Malaysia, Thailand and Burma at elevations of 50 to 400 meters in lowland open spaces and swamps on trees and rock faces often in full sun as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte and ocassional lithophyte with stemlike, slender, flexuous, branching and usually pendant, usually fractiflex stems and carrying 7 to 10, persistant, flat, spreading, fleshy, recurved, sharply pointed, grooved, and loosely distichous leaves that blooms in the fall and spring on a 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising on the apical, leafless portion of the stem

Synonyms Aporum acerosum (Lindl.) Brieger 1981; Aporum calceolariae (J.König) M.A.Clem. 2003; Aporum subteres Griff. 1845; Callista acerosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Callista subteres (Griff.) Kuntze 1891; Cymbidium calceolaria (J.König) Willd. 1805; Epidendrum calceolariae J.König 1791; Dendrobium subteres (Griff.) Lindl. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Of Malaya Vol. 1 Orchids Holttum 1964; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006