Dendrobium alabense J.J.Wood 1990 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Common Name The Mt. Alab Dendrobium [A mountain in SAbah]

Flower Size

Found in Sabah, Borneo in open areas of moss and scrub forests on ridge tops at elevations of 1300 to 2300 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a swollen base and apically slendre and cane-like, flattened, branching, purple in youth, straw yellow with age pseudobulbs enveloped towards the apex by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 4 to 8, linear leaves that blooms in the spring on a very short, single flowered inflorescence arising at the upper nodes of a leafless cane.

Synonyms Ceraia alabensis (J.J.Wood) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobiums Wood 2006