Dendrobium pandaneti Ridl. 1896 SECTION Distichophyllum

Plant and FlowersPhotos by © Petrus Kurniawan and his Flicker Photo Page

Original Drawing Drawing courtesy of Swiss Orchid Foundation and the Jany Renz Herbarium

Common Name The Pandan Growing Dendrobium

Flower Size .8" to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]

Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo in lowland forests on palms and pandans at elevations of 400 to 600 meters as a medium szied, hot growing epiphyte with shiney green to yellow, cylindric,smooth, often branching stens carrying 10 to 13 per growth, linear-oblong, thin, shiney, pale green, two ranked, gradually anrrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the spring on several, from the apical nodes of the stem, racemose 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Dendrobium mega Kraenzl. 1910; Distichorchis pandaneti (Ridl.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide/photo ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo no?; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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