Dendrobium crabro Ridl. 1908 SECTION Calcarifera

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Full Shade Hot Warm LATESpring

Common Name or Meaning The Hornet Like ? Dendrobium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Sarawak Borneo in lowlands as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with cylindrical, widest towards the apex stems carrying elliptic leaves that blooms in the late spring on a short, towards the apex, single flowered inflorescence.

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

Synonyms Eurycaulis crabro (Ridl.) 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; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009;

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