Dendrobium anceps Sw. 1800 SECTION Aporum Photo cortesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Double-Edged Dendrobium [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size to 1/2" [to 1.25 cm]

Found in Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Andaman Islands, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nicobar Islands and Vietnam in tropical and subtropical valleys, at an elevation of 200 to 1400 meters where it is a small to large sized, pendulous, hot to warm growing epiphyte with flattened, zigzag appearing stems carrying many, fleshy, deciduous, distichous, ovate-lanceolate, shrply pointed, folded tightly leaves that are held in a single plane and blooms in the summer and fall on a short, terminal and lateral, flowered inflorescence with small, single, fleshy, fragrant flowers arising from in between the leaf axils occuring anywhere along the stem but mostly at the apex. This species requires a cool, drier rest in the winter months and a cessation of fertilizer until new groiwth begins in the spring. It can be mounted on tree-fern or potted in a well draining medium.

Synonyms Aporum anceps Lindley 1830; Callista anceps (Sw.) Kuntze 1891; Ditulima anceps (Sw.) Raf. 1836

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 1 1958 drawing; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006;

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