Dendrobium alabense J.J.Wood 1990 SECTION Crumenata Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Common Name The Mt. Alab Dendrobium [A mountain in Sabah]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Sabah, Borneo in open areas of moss and scrub lower to upper montane forests on ridge tops at elevations of 1300 to 2400 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a swollen base and apically slendre and cane-like, flattened, branching, purple in youth, straw yellow with age pseudobulbs enveloped towards the apex by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 4 to 8, linear leaves that blooms in the spring on a very short, single flowered inflorescence arising at the upper nodes of a leafless cane.

Synonyms Ceraia alabensis (J.J.Wood) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Wood, Shim & Lamb Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fideOrchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobiums Wood 2006; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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