Dendrobium ovipostoriferum J.J.Sm. 1912 SECTION Formosae Photos by © Diar Tambunan
Inflorescence Photos by Petrus Kurniawan
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Common Name The Egg-Laying Dendrobium [refers tothe mentum's Shape]
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in Borneo as a medium sized,hot to cool growing epiphyte with slender stems carrying 2 to 4 flowers.
Following text by Peter O'Byrne; When J.J.Smith described D. ovipostoriferum (syn D. takahashii)in 1913, he stated that both the sheaths and the leaves (especially near the base) are covered in small black hairs. The species is not currently found in cultivation. I have never seen a plant or photo of this species. [See above, the correct species photo has been found by Petrus in Indonesia] Since the 1960's the name "D. ovipostoriferum" (often mis-spelled in various ways) has been applied to plants from North Borneo that are actually a
distinct, showy, large-flowered form of Dendrobium dearei.
Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Marius Wasbauer
This error was repeated in Cribb and Wood's "Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo", where the colour photo labelled "D. ovipostoriferum" shows the North Borneo form of D. dearei. I published an article clarifying this in the 2000 edition of Malayan Orchid Review, and J.J.Woods (of Kew Gardens) acknowledged that I was correct in his Orchids of Borneo Volume 4, on pages 86-88.
Synonyms Dendrobium takahashii Carr 1934
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 photo not = Den dearei; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as D takahashiiOrchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006
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