Dendrobium polytrichum Ames 1907 SECTION Crumenata Photo by Copyright © W C Schraut and Orchids and More Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Titmuss, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Many Haired Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm]

Found in the Philippines in humid forests at elevations below 800 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, basally thickened stems carrying several, semiterete leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a few flowered inflorescence arising on leafless canes and carry fragrant flowers

Synonyms Ceraia polytricha (Ames) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchid Australia Vol 13 No 1 2001 photo; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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