Dendrobium acinaciforme Roxb. 1878 SECTION Crumenata

Another Flower Angle Showing Spur

Plant and Flowers Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

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Common Name The Saber-Shaped Dendrobium

Flower Size .3" [.8 cm]

Found in the Assam, eastern Himalayas, Hainan China, south central China, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Moluccas in broadleaf evergreen lowland forests at altitudes of 800 to 2200 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with tightly clustered, slightly zigzag, slender stems carrying 8 to 12, narrow, pointed, distichous, succulent, curved leaves that are folded which blooms on an axillary, at the upper nodes of a leafless pseudobulb, single flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring. Repot immediately after flowering if needed. This species needs a definitive winter rest from water and fertilizer and should only be begun after initiation of new growth. Best mounted on tree fern or cork if given daily waterings through the summer months and high humidity the rest of the year

Synonyms Aporum acinaciforme (Roxb.) Griff. 1845; Aporum acinaciforme (Roxb.) Brieger 1981; Aporum scalpelliforme (Teijsm. & Binn.) Rauschert 1983; Callista acinaciformis (Roxb.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium scalpelliforme Teijsm. & Binn 1864;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide To The Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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