Dendrobium acerosum Lindl. 1841 SECTION Aporum SUBSECTION Strongyle

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

Common Name The Pointed Dendrobium

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

Found in Borneo, Suluwesi, Sumatra, Malaysia, Thailand and Burma 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; 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; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006