Dendrobium kentrophyllum Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Strongyle Photo by © Art Vogel
Plant with side view of flower
Plant Photos by © David Kuehn
Common Name The Spiney Leafed Dendrobium
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas, Laos, Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra in peat swamp, hill, ridge-top and lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1520 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with thin to stout, zig-zag, branching stems carrying almost terete, flattened, acute, curved leaves all held in a single plane and bloms in the fall on a short, axillary to lateral, single flowered inflorescence areising at or near the apex of leafy stems and in small clusters on leafless stems.
Synonyms Aporum albicolor (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983; Aporum capitellatum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Aporum kentrophyllum (Hook.f.) Brieger 1981; Callista kentrophylla (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium albicolor Ridl. 1896; Dendrobium capitellatum J.J.Sm. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Hooker's Icones Planetarum Vol 21 Hooker 1890 drawing ok; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 photo ok; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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