IOSPE PHOTOS

Dendrobium compressum Lindl. 1842 SECTION Platycaulon

Another Angle Photo by Tun Jang and his Orchids of Sumatra Blogspot Website

Common Name The Flat Stemmed Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Philippines in riverine and hill forests at elevations of 300 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 2 to 5, clustered, erect to pendent, clavate, narrow and terete basally, gradually becoming laterally flattened, acute apically, internoded stems carrying 2 to 6, alternate from nodes at the narrow edge of the upper part of the stem, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic to ovate, acute, thin-textured, dark green, sometimes stained purple leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a lateral, appearing subterminal, 1 to 3, pale green streaked red, arising from the apical nodes, .4 to 2" [1 to 5 cm] long, successively 2 to 14 flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, acute, purple floral bracts and carrying sweetly musky scented flowers

Many sources combine this species as a synonym of D lamellatum but they are separate species, as of now I have not been able to sort out the exact differences but I feel that the photo here is correct for this species. I think that this species has 3 longitudinal calli and D lamellata has 5 but I have no references to verify that.

Synonyms Dendrobium platycaulon Rolfe 1892; Eurycaulis compressus (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Eurycaulis platycaulos (Rolfe) Fessel & Lückel 2002; Pedilonum platycaulon (Rolfe) Rauschert 1983;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 photo/drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 10 2012; A Guide to the Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2013 photo good; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #2 2019 photo fide;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------