Dendrobium bicameratum Lindl. 1839 SECTION Breviflores Photo by ENVIS Center Sikkim On Ecotourism © and their Sikkim Website

Flower Closeup Photo by © Enrico Henman

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Common Name The Two Chambered Dendrobium [refers to the characteristic bilocular column foot]

Flower Size 1/4" to 1/2" [7 to 1.2 mm]

Found in the western Himalayas Bangladesh, India, Assam, Nepal, eastern Himalayas, Myanamar and Thailand at elevations of 600 to 2400 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with fusiform to clavate, curved to wavy, ridged, yellowish stems carrying 2 to 6, towards the apex of the stem, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, obliquely emarginate, veined, tapering into the clasping sheath base leaves that blooms in the summer on several, lateral, short, subcapitate, subdensely 4 to 6 flowered, glabrous, weakly zig-zag inflorescence with overlapping, broadly ovate, bracts.

Synonyms Callista bicamerata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Callista bolboflora (Falc. ex Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Callista breviflora (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium bolboflorum Falc. ex Hook.f. 1890; Dendrobium breviflorum Lindl. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 as drawing fide; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1890 as D bolboflorum drawing ok; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; Icones Planetarum Vol XXI [Vol 1] Hkr. 1891 as Dendrobium bolboflorum; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok;

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