Dendrobium villosulum Wall. ex Lindl. 1830SECTION Conostalix Photo by J.B.Comber Copyright © and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Plant in situ Malaysia Photo by Peter O'Byrne Copyright © and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Janny Renz Herbaria

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Common Name The Shaggy Dendrobium [refers to the leaf sheaths]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in the Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo in decaying leaf litter of hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, sometimes branching, slender, wiry stem carrying many, linear-lanceolate, ridged, channeled, incurved along the margin, unequally bilobed apically, 2 ranked leaves with spotted and black hair covered leaf sheaths that bloom in the late winter on a short, single flowered inflorescence and carrying pendulous flowers

CAUTION I am not sure of this determination so please use with caution!

Synonyms Callista villosula (Wall. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Conostalix graminea (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983; Conostalix orbicularis (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Conostalix villosula (Wall. ex Lindl.) Rauschert 1983; Dendrobium fuscopilosum Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920; Dendrobium gramineum Ridl.1908; Dendrobium melanochlamys Holttum 1947; Dendrobium orbiculare J.J.Sm. 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996 as D villosulum Lindl. 1852; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo hmmm;

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