Dendrobium sarawakense Merr. 1921 SECTION Calcarifera

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Common Name The Sarawak Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in Borneo as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slightly flexuous, grooved canes carrying many, elliptic leaves and blooms in the spring on an axillary, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Dendrobium multiflorum Ridl. 1908; Eurycaulis multiflorus M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009;

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