Dendrobium aciculare Lindl. 1840 SECTION Crumenata

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Common Name The Small Needle-Carrying Dendrobium [refers to the lip]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia and Borneo in lowlands at unreported elevations as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a erect, basally swollen, occasionally branching stems carrying, widely spaced, linear to terete, non-grooved leaves that are held at right angles to the stem that blooms on short, single flowered inflorecence that arise from the nodes at the apex of the stem.

Synonyms Aporum aciculare (Lindl.) Rauschert 1983; Aporum koeteianum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Callista acicularis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Ceraia acicularis (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Ceraia koeteiana (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Dendrobium koeteianum Schltr. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Baker's 1995;

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