Dendrobium singulare Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920 SECTION Crumenata Photo by © Peter Maxwell

Another Flower or D ventripes Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Photos Photo Website

Common Name The Unique Dendrobium

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Sarawak and Sabah Borneo in lower to upper montane mossy forests at elevations of 900 to 2600 meters as a small to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, suberect, shiney yellow, dark banded at nodes, somewhat zigzag, flattened and enveloped by clasping leaf sheaths and carrying many, distichous, rigid, lanceolate, and abruptly taper to a slender apex leaves that blooms in the fall on a very short, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from tufts of dry scales towards the apex of each leafless and leafy canes with the flowers held close to the stem

Many references have this species as D ventripes but they have been found to be conspecific and so this name takes precedence.

Synonyms Ceraia ventripes (Carr) M.A.Clem. 2003; Dendrobium ventripes Carr 1935

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 as D ventripes drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 aas D ventripes; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996 as D ventripes; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001 as D ventripes; The Dendrobiums Wood 2006 as D ventripes; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 photo fide

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