Dendrobium tridentatum Ames & C. Schweinf. 1920 SECTION Crumenata Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Photo Site

Another Color Photo courtesy of Peter Maxwell

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Common Name The Three Toothed Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.4 to 1.6" [3.5 cm to 3.8 cm]

Found on Mt Kinabalu Sabah in northern Borneo in lower and upper montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 2300 meters as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with many jointed, gently arching, yellow to greenish brown stems and carrying many, linear, thick, rigid leaf witha sharp projection at the rounded apex that blooms in the summer and fall in situ on a short inflorescence that arises from the upper nodes opposite the apical leaves

Synonyms Ceraia tridentata (Ames & C.Schweinf.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing hmm/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood Vol 3 1997; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo/drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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