Dendrobium gracile (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Crumenata Photo by © Petrus Kurniawan

Common Name The Graceful Dendrobium

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Java, Sumatra and Borneo in lower montane mossy forests at elevations of 1200 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with pendent, basally globose, thin, elongate stems carrying spreading, linear to almost terete, channeled on upper side, decreasing in size towards the apex leaves that blooms in the spring on an apical, very short, successively single flowered inflorescence

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms Aporum gracile (Blume) Brieger 1981; Callista gracilis (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Ceraia gedeana (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Ceraia gracilis (Blume) M.A.Clem. 2003; Dendrobium gedeanum J.J.Sm. 1907; *Onychium gracile Blume 1825;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo not hmm; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2002; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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