Dendrobium hepaticum J.J.Sm.1917
Photos by © Dian Rachmawaty and the Orchids of Borneo Website
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Common Name The Liver Colored Dendrobium
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in western Borneo in lower montane at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with clustered, grooved, quadrangular stems carrying many, fleshy, glossy dark green or yellow green, thin textured, oblong-ovate to oval, broadly obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late summer fall and early winter on many, sessile, short, single to 2 flowered inflorescence and carrying fragrant flowers.
Similar to D revolutum in the flowers shape but with different colors, the many ribbed lip with larger side lobes and a 2 lobed mid lobe.
Synonyms Distichorchis hepatica (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide 1st photo only; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 10 2012 photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide
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