Dendrobium spatella Rchb.f. 1865 SECTION Aporum
Plant Photos by © Pierre Bonnet from the Orchis project website
Common Name The Little Broad Flat Blade Dendrobium [refers to the lip shape] - In China Jian Ye Shi Hu
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Assam, eastern Himalayas, Myanamar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Fujian, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China, Hong Kong and Malaysia in forest margins on tree trunks or in forests on rocks at elevations of 500 to 900 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with erect, laterally compressed, basae contrracted, becoming slender distally, unbranched, many noded stem carrying distichous, axcending, slightly sparsely overlapping to alternate, laterally compressed, dagger-shaped, thickly leathery or fleshy, dilated below into sheaths that clsp stem, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a lateral, along the leafless pseudoraceme, short, single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Aporum banaense (Gagnep.) Rauschert 1983; Aporum spatella (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Callista spatella (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium acinaciforme var. minus Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; Dendrobium banaense Gagnep. 1930;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996 as D acinaciforme var minus; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 as D acinaciforme photo ok; The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide; ;
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