Dendrobium brevimentum Seidenf. 1985 SECTION Aporum TYPE Photo by © Seidenfaden

Another Flower Photo by © Gary Meyers and The Swiss Orchid Society at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Short Chin Dendrobium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Thailand at elevations around 620 meters as a small sized, warm growing, tufted epiphyte with erect stems enveloped completely by imbricate leaves that blooms with several sinultaneously opening flowers arising from near the apex of the young stems and from along the stem of older leaf shedding stems

Synonyms Aporum brevimentum (Seidenf.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and their Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000;

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