Dendrobium lobulatum Rolfe & J.J. Sm. 1905 SECTION Aporum Bl Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Gerardus Staal of Peninsula Hybrids,Palo Alto, CA.

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Common Name The Small-Lobed Dendrobium

Flower Size .3" [.7 cm]

Found in Sumatra, West Java, the Moluccas and Borneo in lowland forests as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 500 to 1200 meters with pendulous, flattened, stems that are leafy towards the apex and carry many, imbricating, triangular, stiff, fleshy, pointed, dull green or purple green leaves that are smallest at the apex and largest towards the base that blooms in the spring and fall on a very short, several sequentially flowered inflorescence with only 1 or 2 flowers open at a time and arise from the nodes on or near the apex of mostly leafless pseudobulbs. In winter the plants should be left to dry out in between waterings and fertilizer should be withheld until the onset of new growth in the spring.

Synonyms Aporum lobulatum [Rolfe & J.J.Sm.] Breiger 1981;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; 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