Diplocaulobium textile (J.J.Sm.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961

Another Angle Photos by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Textile Diplocaulobium [probably refers to the lip mid lobe that has a rather woven surface texture]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Sulawesi in lower forests, hill ridge forests and mossy montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 1700 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with crowded erect, basally swollen, narrowly ovoid to cylindro-conical, attenuate, green, olive green to brown pseduobulbs carrying a single, apical,erect, linear, tapering at both ends, notched, gree to dark green leaf that blooms at most any tome of the year on a short single flowered inflorescence ariosing and hidden within an oblong, dark brown spathe.

Synonyms *Dendrobium textile J.J.Sm. 1932; Diplocaulobium textile var. haematostictum P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm. 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009 drawing/photo fide

Diplocaulobium textile var. haematostictum P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm. 2009

Common Name The Blood Spotted Diplocaulobium [refers to the lip coloration]

Flower Size 3.2" [8 cm]

Found in Sulawesi at elevations of 1200 to 1700 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte. The flowers and plant are consistently larger and the lip is white with red spotting.

Synonyms Dendrobium textile var. haematostictum (P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm.) Schuit. & Peter B.Adams 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009 drawing/photo fide

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