IOSPE PHOTOS

Dendrobium indivisum [Blume] Miq. 1859 SECTION Aporum Bl

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Common Name The Undivided Dendrobium [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .1 to .4" [.3 to .9 cm]

Found in Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the Molucca Islands in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of sealevel to 1600 meters with curved, unbranched, leafy stems carrying, many, lanceolate, imbricating, spreading leaves that blooms on a very short inflorescence with a single, tiny, fan-shaped flower arising from the bases of the numerous imbricate leaves occuring in the summer to winter. Water shopuld be lessened in the fall and then in late winter almost curtailed. Fertilizer should be stopped as soon as the plant is not actively growing. Both water and fertilizer should be resumed with the onset of new growth in the spring.

Synonyms Aporum fuscum (P.O'Byrne) M.A.Clem. 2003; Aporum incrassatum Blume 1825; *Aporum indivisum Blume 1825; Aporum porphyrophyllum (Guillaumin) M.A.Clem. 2003; Callista eulophota (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Callista incrassata (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Callista indivisa (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium caespitosum King & Pantl. 1895; Dendrobium eulophotum Lindl. 1859; Dendrobium incrassatum [Bl.]Miq. 1859; Dendrobium indivisum var. fuscum P.O'Byrne 1997; Dendrobium indivisum var. lampangense Rolfe 1925; Dendrobium indivisum var. pallidum Schweinf. 1985; Dendrobium neolampangense Aver. 1988; Dendrobium porphyrophyllum Guillaumin 1955

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D eulophotum; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

Dendrobium indivisum var. pallidum Schweinf. 1985

A pale yelow color form of the previous species.

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