Dendrobium guerreroi Ames & Quisumb. 1932 SECTION Calcarifera Photo courtesy of Nik Fahmi and Vortex Orchids

Side View of Flowers Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name Guerrero's Dendrobium [Philippine Orchid Collector 1900's]

Flower Size 1 to almost 1 1/2" [2.5 to 3.75 cm]

Found in the Philippines as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pendant, zig-zag, slender, terete stems carrying 5 to 10, linear-lanceolate, unequally bilobed apically, distichous leaves blooming on a short to 3" [7.5 cm] penduluous, loosely several [15] flowered inflorescence arising opposite the leaves at nodes along the leafy stem.

Synonyms Eurycaulis guerreroi (Ames & Quisumb.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo hmm; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006