Dendrobium cf prostratum Ridl.1896 SECTION Aporum
Stem and Flower Photos by © Art Vogel
Common Name The Laying Down Dendrobium
Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]
Found in Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra in lowland and hill forests at elevations around 500 to 600 meters as a small to medium szied, hot growing epiphyte with a creeping, branching stem enveloped completely by imbricating leaf sheaths and carrying triangular, fleshy leaves that blooms in the winter on an apparently terminal, short, single flowered inflorescence and carries musty scented flowers
CAUTION This one comes from Papua New Guinea and differs greatly in the callus on the lip as well as the lip apex which is not bilobed and fimbriate differing from Comber's photo in Orchids of Sumatra which has a large hairy patch and Seidenfaden's drawing in orchids of Pennisular Malyasia but agrees in all other aspects. May be D xanthoacron but do not have references to confirm so use with caution.
Synonyms Aporum prostratum (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983; Dendrobium uniflorum Teijsm. & Binn. 1862
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok?; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Speceies Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok?; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide
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