Diplocaulobium longicolle (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1910 SECTION Diplocaulobium
Lip Photos by Dian Rachmawaty
Common Name The Long-Necked Diplocaulobium
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm] long
Found in Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra in lowland mangrove swamps as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a a very short rhizome, giving rise to clustered, slender, flattened, broadest near the base pseudobulbs carrying narrowly lanceolate, minutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms on successively 2 flowered inflorescence,witha basal bract.
Synonyms Callista longicollis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; *Dendrobium longicolle Lindl. 1840; Diplocaulobium malayanum Carr 1932
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009 drawing/photo good; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 photo good
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