Dendrobium imitator J.J.Wood 2008 SECTION Crumenata

Drawing by © Linda Gurr

Common Name The Imitating Dendrobium [refers to its resemblance to D minimum]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm] long

Found in Brunei Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with leafy throughout, flattened, flexuous, wiry, branching, 2 to 3 internodes above the base swollen into a strongly companilate, oblong to fusiform, yellowsish pseudobulbs carrying linear, grass-like, shortly, unequally, acutely to acuminately bifid, thin textured, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a fasciculate, arising from the upper nodes of the stem or sometimes from older leafless stems, successively single, few flowered inflorescence carrying cream colored flowers with the lip apex flushed greenish.

"Closely related to D minimum but is distinguished by the slightly smaller flowers witha glabrous, distally three lobed lip. The erect side lobes are triangular, acute and tooth-like. The midlobe is shortly obtusely bilobulate." J J Wood 2014

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 drawing/photo fide

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