Dendrobium derryi Ridl. 1907 SECTION Calcarifera Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Common Name Derry's Dendrobium [English Director of Singapore Botanical Garden 1900]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Sumatra, Borneo and penninsular Malaysia in lowland to lower montane forests at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with canes carrying, many, all along the cane leaves that blooms in the spring on short, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence arising all along older leafless canes and holding the flowers very close to the cane.

Synonyms Eurycaulis derryi (Ridl.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Pedilonum derryi (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994 excluded taxa; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo fide Dendrobiums Wood 2006; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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