Dendrobium bifarium Lindl. 1830 SECTION Distichophyllum Hkr.f
Plant in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photos by © David Kuehn
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EARLY
Common Name The Two Sided Dendrobium
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Moluccas and Sumatra in lower montane, moss and laurel/oak forests at elevations of 600 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with pendant, thin basally, thicker and fleshier above, leafy stems carrying numerous, lanceolate, apically bilobed, obtuse leaves that blooms in the late winter through early summer on an axillary, very short, single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Callista bifaria (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium excisum Lindl. 1841; Distichorchis bifaria (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobiums Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002
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