Dendrobium hamaticalcar J.J.Wood & Dauncey 1993 SECTION Calcarifera Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Photos Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Jek Yap

Common Name or Meaning The Hook-Shaped Spur Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.6 cm]

Found in Sabah, Borneo in lowlands and foothills at elevations of 400 to 900 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with arching stems that are slightly thicker towards the apex and are enveloped by violet flushed leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying thin, broad, ovate, acute, basally clasping and articulate to the leaf sheaths that blooms in the fall on a pendulous, 4 to 9 flowered, .8 to 1.8" [2 to 4 cm] long inflorescence arising from the nodes towards the apex of the cane-like stem.

Synonyms Eurycaulis hamaticalcar (J.J.Wood & Dauncey) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawings fide The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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