Dendrobium lamrianum C.L.Chan 1994 SECTION Distichophyllum

Another Angle Photos by © Mary Gerritsen and her Picasa photo Website

Common Name Lamri's Dendrobium [ Indonesian Orchid enthusiast and director of Sabah's Park System current]]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in northern Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations around 1100 to 1800 meters as a large to giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with elongate stems enveloped almost entirely by persistent leaf sheaths and carrying many distichous, in youth enveloped by dark brown hairs, ligulate, acutely unequally bilobedapically, articualte basally leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, short to 1/4" [7mm] long, single flowered inflorescence held towards the apex of the stem, and carrying a non-resupinate, fleshy, strongly scented flower.

Synonyms Distichorchis lamriana (C.L.Chan) M.A.Clem.2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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