Dendrobium aphanochilum Kraenzl. 1910 SECTION Pedilonum

Inflorescence Photos by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page

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Common Name The Insignificant Lipped Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in the Moluccas in hill and montane forests on trees at elevations of 800 to 1700 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, cane-like, curved pseudobulbs carrying deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, bidentate apically leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a short, 5 to 9 flowered inflorescence arising from the upper nodes along a leafless cane and carrying slightly fragrant flowers

This species can also be found with yellow flowers in limestone areas of Seram.

Synonyms Chromatotriccum aphanochilum (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Pedilonum aphanochilum (Kraenzl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002;

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