Dendrobium subflavidum Ridl. 1908 SECTION Oxystophyllum
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Peter Maxwell
Common Name The Not all Yellow Dendrobium
Flower Size 1.6 to 1.8" [4 to 4.5 cm]
Found in Thailand and Malaysia at elevations of 910 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with purplish, erect stems carrying many, all along the stem, thin, lanceolate, acute, dark greeen and soetimes suffused with purple leaves that blooms in the winter on a pendulous, .9" [2.2cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence arising on older mature leafed canes.
Synonyms Dendrobium chloroleucum Ridl. 1912; Eurycaulis subflavidus (Ridl.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Pedilonum subflavidum (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 as D chloroleucum photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing okish; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;
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