Dendrobium lampongense J.J. Sm. 1908 SECTION Calcarifera J.J.Sm Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Peter Maxwell

Common Name or Meaning The Lampong Dendrobium [ region in southern Sumatra]

Flower Size 1.6 to 1.9" [4.2 to 4.8 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Sabah and Sumatra in lowland and hill forests at elevations of 200 to 300 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with stem-like pseudobubls consisting of many nodes and carrying lanceolate, deciduous leaves and blooms on a short, few flowered inflorescence that arises from a leafless cane

Synonyms Eurycaulis lampongensis (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006