Dendrobium dianae O'Byrne & Wood 2010 SECTION Calcarifera Photo by © Petrus Kurniawan

Another Flower Color Photo by © Peter O'Byrne

Common Name Dian's Dendrobium [Indonesian Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size 1.16" to 1.24" [2.9 to 3.2 cm] long

Found in Kalimantan Borneo in primary lowland and hill forests at elevations of sea level to 900 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, erect to arching, spreading to descending, terete, green becoming reddish brown, longitudinally sulcate in maturity stems carrying deciduous, elliptic, tapering to an obliquely acute, unequally bilobed apically, thin-textured, mid nerve prominent on adaxial surface, slightly undualte margins, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a crowded, pendulous, cylindrical, purple to maroon, racemose, to 2.6" [to 6.5 cm] long, 4 to 12 flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the apical nodes of leafless stems with triangular, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 photo/drawing

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