Dendrobium peculiare J.J. Sm. 1928 SECTION Crumenata
Plant Photos by © David Kuehn
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Common Name The Peculiar Dendrobium [refers to the ovo-globular flower]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in penninsular Malaysia and Sumatra in montane forests at elevations around 1300 to 1700 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a basally swollen, slightly zig-zag stems with internodes 1" [2.5 cm] apart and carrying several, apical, terete, grooved leaves and blooms in the spring on very short, arising from the apical nodes of the stem, single flowered inflorescence carrying very short lived flowers
Synonyms Aporum peculiare (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Ceraia peculiaris (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem.2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Malaysia Vol 1 Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Baker's 1995; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide
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