Dendrobium compressimentum J.J.Sm. 1928 SECTION Calcarifera Photo by © Cs California and his Orchids Wiki Photo Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Compressed Mentum Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.4 [3.5 cm]

Found in Sumatra and Borneo in in montane forests at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with unbranched, slightly zig-zag at the narrower apex canes carrying many, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, somewhat basally twisted leaves that blooms in the late winter and mid summer on a short, towards the apex, single flowered inflorescence

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms Aporum compressimentum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Eurycaulis compressimentus (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1995;

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