Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Ian Chung

Common Name The Singapore Dendrobium [Independant country within Malaysia]

Flower Size .4 to 1.6" [1 to 4 cm]

Found in Malaysia, Penninsular Thailand, Borneo, Sumatra at elevations around 200 meters in moist lowland habitats as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with very slender, rigid, zigzaged stems carrying 2 to 10, widely spaced, slightly curved, nearly terete leaves similar to Papilionanthe teres leaves that blooms with a slight temperature change in the warmer months on short, lateral, inflorescence arisng towards the apex of old leafless canes and arise singly from the tufts of the floral bracts carrying scented [Chrysanthemum Tea], fleshy flowers that do not open well.

Synonyms Aporum teres (Kuntze) Rauschert 1983; Callista teres Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium teres Lindl. 1840

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as D teres; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Of Malaya Vol. 1 Orchids Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing ok; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001, A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide;

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