Dendrobium serratilabium L.O. Williams 1937 Section Calcarifera Photo by © Phuphaman Orchids Website, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

Flower Closeup 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

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Common Name The Saw-Toothed Lip Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm]

A pendant, medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte that occurs in the Phillipines on Luzon Island in lowland forests with occasionally branching, thickened, narrowly club shaped, wrinkled stems carrying many, lanceolate leaves with yellow streaked leaf sheaths that blooms on a short, to 6 flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes on older portions of the canes with a to 6flowers occuring in the fall. Water and fertilizer should be reduced through the winter months and resumed only with the onset of new growth in the spring.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 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 6 2010 photo fide

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