Dendrobium dearei Rchb. f. 1882 SECTION Formosae Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl, plant grown by JEM Orchids

Flower Closeup Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

North Borneo Form always sold as D ovipostriferum

Inflorescence of North Borneo Form Photos courtesy of Marius Wasbauer

Common Name Deare's Dendrobium [English Colonel in the Philippines late 1800's]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

A medium to large sized, hot growing epiphytic species from Borneo and the Philippines that is found in coastal forests at altitudes of 60 to 100 meters with erect, slightly thicker above, sulcate, leafy throughout the stem and having leaf sheaths that are covered in black hairs carrying coriaceous, distichous, oblong-ligulate leaves with the uppermost persistent and has a bloom time of winter and spring with an axillary to terminal, arching, short, racemose, 6 to 18 flowered inflorescence that arises from the upper nodes on old and new canes and carries musty smelling flowers. This Dendrobium has a more balanced watering and fertilizing schedule than most, so give it even conditions year round.

Synonyms Callista dearii (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 4 1998 photo; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Wood, Shim & Lamb Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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