Dendrobium erosum (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Calyptrochilus Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Side View of Flowers Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer

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Common Name Refers to being not gnawed, whole?

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Southern Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Papua & New Guinea, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte on large trees along the border of mangrove swamps and lower montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 2000 meters with pendant, clustered, many angled, noded and leafy stems carrying many, lanceolate leaves and blooms in the fall and winter on a very short, pendant, few to many [5 to 10] flowered inflorescence arising from the upper nodes of leafless canes with flowers that do not open fully. The leaves of this species are dried, powdered and steeped and then mixed with coconut oil to be used as a perfume in western New Guinea. Water and fertilizer should be greatly reduced for 2 months in the winter until early spring and only resumed with the onset of new growth.

Synonyms Callista erosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Chromatotriccum aemulans (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Chromatotriccum amblyogenium (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Chromatotriccum erosum (Blume) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2002; Dendrobium aegle Ridl. 1896; Dendrobium aemulans Schltr. 1906; Dendrobium amblyogenium Schlechter 1911; Dendrobium inopinatum J.J. Sm. 1922; Pedilonum aegle (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983; Pedilonum aemulans (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Pedilonum amblyogenium [Schltr.] Raushert 1983; *Pedilonum erosum Blume 1825; Pedilonum inopinatum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as D aegle; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 as D aemulans photo not; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1995; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 2003 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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