Dendrobium bicaudatum Reinw. ex Lindl. 1859 SECTION Spatulata Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Two-Tailed Dendrobium

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in the Mollucas and the Celebes as a medium sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte on rocks from sea level to 1000 meters with clustered, cane-like pseudobulbs that are swollen in the middle carrying many lanceolate, suberect leaves that blooms mostly in the fall and winter on often 2 or more arising at a time, axillary, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, usually racemose inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex of the pseudobulb carrying up to 10 flowers

Synonyms Callista bicaudata (Reinw. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Ceratobium bicaudatum (Reinw. ex Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Ceratobium minax (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Dendrobium antelope Rchb. f. 1883; Dendrobium burbidgei Rchb. f. 1878; Dendrobium demmenii J.J. Sm. 1920; Dendrobium minax Rchb. f. 1874; Dendrobium rumphianum Teijsm. & Binn. 1862

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1867 as Dendrobium minax drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 photo as D rumphianum; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994 excluded taxa; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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