Dendrobium subulatum (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Strongyle

Plant and Flower Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

Common Name The Terete Dendrobium [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size .2" [.5 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in very wet locations at elevations of sealevel to 650 meters high in the canopy as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with erct, non branched stems carrying in the basal portion terete, slightly curved leaves and in the apical portion scale leaves that blooms in the summer, on very short, single flowered inflorescence arising near the apex of the stem

In Java a poulstice is made from the leaves and are put upon the forehead to help with headaches.

Synonyms Aporum subulatum (Blume) Rauschert 1983; Aporum undulatum (Blume) Brieger 1981; Callista subulata (Blume) Kuntze 1891; *Onychium subulatum Blume 1825; Onychium undulatum Blume 1825; Podochilus bicolor Miq. 1864

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1957; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 4 1959; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 6 1978; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo?; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1995; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide;

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