Dendrobium deliense Schltr.1912SECTION Oxystophyllum

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Wilhamdani Sitompul and The Wild Orchids of Sumatra Website

Part shade Warm Spring

Common Name The Deli Dendrobium [An Area of northern Sumatra]

Flower Size .24" [.6 cm]

Found in northern Sumatra at elevations around 700 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with nearly erect, non-branching stems carrying many, dense, smooth, leathery, lanceolate, knife-like leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising towards the apex of the stem

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution!

Synonyms Aporum deliense (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Oxystophyllum deliense (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Bakers 1996;

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