Dendrobium pachyanthum Schltr. 1911 SECTION Grastidium Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Flicker Orchid Photostream

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Common Name The Broad Flowered Dendrobium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations of 400 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with cylindrical, longitudinally grooved and somewhat curved canes carrying many, oblong, smootth, leathery, distichousleaves and blooms on a short, axillary inflorescence carrying a single flower occuring in January through April.

Synonyms Distichorchis pachyantha (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/1985; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide

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