Dendrobium connatum (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Distichophyllum Hkr.f Photo by Sophie sm_scp and her Flickr Photo Site

Common Name The Grown Together Dendrobium [May refer to the morphology if the plant overall as in clumping?]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Java, Borneo, Sulawesi and Sumatra in lower montane forests low on tree trunks or on rocks at elevations of 400 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or sometime lithophyte with clustered, 20" [50 cm] long, cane-like stems enveloped by many tubular sheaths carrying many elliptic-lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves articulate to the leaf bearing sheaths that blooms in the spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence that arise between the leaves with only a few wide open flowers opening at any one time.

Synonyms Callista connata (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium subarticulatum Teijsm. & Binn. 1862; Distichorchis connata (Blume) M.A.Clem. 2003; *Onychium connatum Blume 1825;

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; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo close; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo as D bifarium; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo good

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