Dendrobium bilobulatum Seidenf. 1985

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Common Name The Two Small Lobed Dendrobium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Thailand and Vietnam at elevations of 10 to 910 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with often branching, downward turning but not pendant canes are and carry many triangular, distichous, textured, leaves held at a 40 degree angle to the cane and are all in one plane and blooms on a very short, single flowered inflorescence arsing from both young leafy and older leafless canes. and blooms in the winter on .3" [.8 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with the flowers arising opposite the leaves and do not open fully.

Synonyms Aporum bilobulatum (Seidenf.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on The Orchids Of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996

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