Dendrobium atavus J.J.Sm. 1905 SECTION Dendrobium Photo by © Zoenie Wiebie

Common Name The Ancient Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Java at elevations aropund 790 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with yellowish purple, shiney, zig-zag, clustered and dlightly compressed stems carrying many, decidupus, lanceolate to linear, unequally bilobed apically, leaves that blooms in the spring on a 2" [5 cm] long, laxly to 10 flowered inflorescence

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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