Dendrobium sanguinolentum Lindl. 1842 SECTION Calcarifera J.J.Sm Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Flower from Borneo Photo courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III to

Common Name The Blood-Stained Dendrobium

Flower Size to 1" [to 2.5 cm]

A Malaysian, Thai, Sumatran and Bornean [Philippines?] species found in lowland and hill forests on roadside trees at altitudes of sealevel to 600 or 900 meters as a medium to large sized, hot, pendent growing epiphyte with purple, thick, horizontal to pendulous, cylindrical stems carrying many, evergreen, reddish or purple in youth, maybe deciduous leaves that have purple veined leaf sheaths and flowers in the summer and fall on a short to 1 to 1 1/2" [2.25 to 3.75 cm], raceme with a densely few to several [2 to 6], waxy, longlasting flowers arise from the nodes at the apex of leafless canes. Fertilizer can be reduced through all the winter months but water should stay more constant with only a drier period for 1 to 2 months.

Synonyms Anisopetala sanguinolenta (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Callista kentrochila (Hook. f.) Kuntze 1891; Callista sanguinolenta (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium cerinum Rchb.f 1879 not Schlechter ; Dendrobium kentrochilum Hkr.f 1890; Eurycaulis cerinus (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Eurycaulis kentrochilus (Hook.f.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Pedilonum kentrochilum (Hook. f.) Rauschert 1983; Pedilonum sanguinolentum (Lindl.) Brieger 1981

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1890 as D kentrochilum drawing ok; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing does not match; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 5 1983 drawing/photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as D cerinum; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as D kentrochilum drawing hmm; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing hmm; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing/photo ok; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 as D cerinum photo ok; Orchids of Sum atra Comber 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 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; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo good; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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