Dendrobium platycaulon Rolfe 1892 SECTION Calcarifera

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Plant Photo by © Dorothy Potter Barnett

Plant Photo by © Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden

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Common Name Flat Pseudobulbed Dendrobium

Flower Size to 1" [2.5 cm]

A Philippine, New Guinea and surrounding islands as a miniature sized, hot growing, epiphytic species said to be a synonym of Dendrobium platygastrium found at elevations of 0 to 500 meters in dense humid forests near watercourses with very compressed, flattened pseudobulbs carrying a few, distichous elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring and again in the fall on a 1 1/2" [3.75 cm] long, erect, few [5] flowered, racemose inflorescence that arises from the nodes near the apex of leafed and leafless canes.

This species and D platigastrium are cited as synonyms but I have kept them separate at this time, please refer to the other species for more information.

Synonyms Dendrobium platygastrium Rchb. f. 1878; Eurycaulis platycaulos (Rolfe) Fessel & Lückel 2002; Pedilonum platycaulon (Rolfe) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 7 1995 photo; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootees 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 1 2006 photo; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 photo fide

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