Dendrobium crabro Ridl. 1908 SECTION Calcarifera
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Common Name or Meaning The Hornet Like Dendrobium [refers to the shape of the lip]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Sarawak Borneo in lowlands at elevations around 500 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, erect to spreading, subcylindrical, widest towards the apex, clavate, distinctly grooved stems carrying 4 to 7, oblong-elliptic, shortly and obtusely unequal at eh apex, deciduous, often purple in youth, slightly narrowing and cuneate at the base leaves that blooms in the late spring on a short, towards the apex, pendulous, peduncle 1.08" [2.7 cm] long, rachis .16 to .2" [4 to 5 mm] long, 1 to 2, 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence arising on leafy and leafless canes.
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 1996; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009; A Guide to the Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2013 photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide
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