Dendrobium cymboglossum J.J. Wood & A.L. Lamb 1994 SECTION Calcarifera Photo by Copyright © W C Schraut and Orchids and More Website
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Common Name The Boat-Shaped Lip Dendrobium
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in Borneo in lowland and montane forests at elevations of 400 to 700 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, slender canes that can carry keikes at the nodes and having several narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that arise along the upper portion of the cane and blooms in the summer on a pendant, 1.4 to 2.2" [3.5 to 5.5 cm] long, several [8] flowered inflorescence that arise from along the stem.
Synonyms Eurycaulis cymboglossus (J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb) M.A.Clem. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photos/drawing fide;
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