Dendrobium kelamense Metusala, P.O’Byrne and J.J.Wood 2010 SECTION Calcarifera Photo By © Destario Metusala and World Press Orchid Article Website

Common Name The Bukit Kelam Dendrobium [A mountain in west Kalimantan Borneo]

Flower Size 1.2 to 1.55" [3.2 to 4.3 cm]

Found in western Kalamantan Borneo in hill forests at elevations of 500 to 800 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, spreading, erect t oarching, simple, terete, broadest in the middle, green in youth becoming reddish brown and longitudinally sulcate with age stems carrying deciduous, elliptic to oblong, tapering to an obliquely acute apex, undulate margins, thin textured, mid nerve prominent, on abaxial surface leaves that blooms in the spring on a pendulous, 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, 5 to 12 flowered inflorescence arising with triangular, acute floral bracts.laterally from the nodes at the apex of the leafy or leafless stem

Synonyms Dendrobium subquadratum J.J. Sm. 1908; Sayeria subquadrata (J.J. Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010 photo/drawing fide

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