Dendrobium panduriferum Hook. f. 1890 SECTION Calcarifera
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of The Oman and His Orchid Website
Common Name The Lute-Shaped Lip Dendrobium
Flower Size 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm]
Found in Burma, Penninsular Thailand, Malaysia and Sabah Borneo in low montane forests high in trees at elevations around 250 to 600 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with weak, flexuous, grooved, cylindrical, basally narrowing cane-like stems carrying 10, thin, lanceolate-elliptic, acute, deciduous, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm] long, 6 to 12 flowered inflorescence arising from near the middle to near the top of leafless canes and carries flowers that can be spotted or striped or variations in between.
Synonyms Callista pandurifera (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium panduriferum Hook. f. var serpens Hkr.f 1890; Dendrobium serpens [Hkr.f] Hook. f. 1895; Dendrobium virescens Ridl.1896; Eurycaulis pandurifer (Hook.f.) M.A.Clem 2003; Pedilonum panduriferum (Hook.f.) Brieger 1981; Pedilonum serpens (Hook.f.) Brieger 1981
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 drawing ok; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as D serpens; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 3 1958 drawing; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as D serpens; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide/photo ok; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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