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Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

Common Name The Broad-Stemmed Dendrobium

Flower Size 3/8 to 3/4" [1 to 1.5 cm]

Found throughout SE Asia, Java, Sumatra and Borneo in very open keranga, hill, and lower montane forests as a miniature, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of sealevel to 1300 [2100] meters low on tree trunks in swamps, orchards, open country and along roadsides and always with bright light. It has glossy, basally wiry, swollen apically stems carrying 2, succulent, thick, fleshy, oblong, glossy, yellow green leaves with red tips and blooms on a short to 3/8" [to 1 cm], axillary, successive or simultaneously opening, few flowered inflorescence with short lived, fragrant flowers arising from between the leaves and occuring in the spring. This species appreciates a treefern mount if they are watered daily with a reduction in the winter and kept in a high humidity situation. This species seems to be triggered by a cool rainfall after which in a few days the flowers appear, much the same as in D crumenatum.

Synonyms Bolbidium pumilum (Kuntze) Brieger 1981; Bolbidium pusillum (Blume) Rauschert 1983 ; *Callista pachyphylla Kuntze 1891; Callista pumila Kuntze 1891; Callista pusilla (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium borneese Finet 1903; Dendrobium carnosum Teijsm. & Binn 1853; Dendrobium perpusillum Balakarishman 1970; Dendrobium pisibulbum Guillaumin 1963; Dendrobium pumilum Roxb. 1832; Dendrobium pussilum [Bl.]Lindley 1830; Desmotrichum pumilum (Kuntze) A.D.Hawkes 1957; Desmotrichum pusillum Blume 1825; Flickingeria pumila (Kuntze) A.D.Hawkes 1965; Polystachya pumila (Kuntze) Kraenzl. 1926

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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