Dendrobium hosei Ridl. 1893 SECTION Distichophyllum Photo by © Luku 100 and his Orchid Blogspot

Common Name Hose's Dendrobium [English Bishop in Singapore around 1900]

Flower Size .3 to 1" [.7 to 2.5 cm]

Found in Malaysia, Borneo and New Guinea in hill forests, mossy ridge forests and in mist forests on mossy tree trunks in partial shade at elevations of 400 to 1000 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elongated, many noded, quadrangular, dirty yellow, longitudinally grooved stems carrying many, distichous, linear-lanceolate, dark green, very unequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the spring on a .8" [2 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the base of the internodes

Synonyms Dendrobium multicostatum J.J.Sm. 1907; Dendrobium pluricostatum Schltr. 1912; Distichorchis multicostata (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Distichorchis pluricostata (Schltr.) M.A.Clem.2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drwawing good; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo ok; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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