Dendrobium cerinum Rchb.f 1879 not Schlechter
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Common Name The Waxy Dendrobium
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in the Philippines, Borneo and Thailand at elevations around 800 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a cylindrical, uprising to semi-pendulous cane carrying semi-deciduous, purple tinged in youth, lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring on a pendent, to 8 flowered inflorescence arising on leafless stems.
The flowers are variable in color at the base of the lip, it can be olive, pale purple, red and green markings as well as plain yellow.
Many authorities put this species as a synonym of D sanguinolentum but I along with Cootes [1999] and Wood [2006] keep it separate pending more information.
I do not see how if these determinations are correct that this is D sanguinolentum, #1 there are no lobes to the lip, this one has an entire apical lip and D sanguinolentum has a bilobed apical lip. More research needed here.
Synonyms Eurycaulis cerinus (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Contributions to the Flora of New Caledonia Schlechter 1906; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 draqwing/photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of the Philippines Cootes & Tiong 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #11 2020 photo fide;
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