Dendrobium lamellatum [Bl.] Lindley 1830 SECTION Platycaulon Photo by Rachmat Setiawan © and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The Laminae Dendrobium [referes to the lips calli]

Flower Size .9" [2.2 cm]

Found only in Java at elevations of 460 to 900 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with green stems carrying cactus like, broad, thin, very flat and slighly curved or cupped leaves that are clustered towards the apex and blooms in the winter, late spring and summer on an arching to pendulous, racemose, few to several flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes at the apex of the stem and having pendulous flowers that do not open fully.

This species and D compressum have been tangled up for a century, I have come to the conclusion that this species only comes from western Java and that D compressum is widespread throughout Malesia. My research has come to the conclusion that D lamellatum has at least 5 up to 7, low, even in height, lammelae on the lip while D compressum has 3 that come to a peak towards the base of the lip. Den pseudolamellatum has 7 keels with the middle 1 being lower and does not go as far back as the others. That being said I have not found a good photo proving that hypothosis so please use with CAUTION! I do think that the flowers of all three species are represented correctly on this site.

Synonyms Callista lamellata (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Eurycaulis lamellatus (Blume) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; *Onychium lamellatum Blume 1825; Pedilonum lamellatum (Blume) Brieger 1981

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1892 as D compressum drawing fide; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Sm. 1908 drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo 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 2001 photo fide; Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vadhanaphutti 2001 Photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 1 2006 photo; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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