Dendrobium kentrophyllum Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Aporum
Photo by © Art Vogel
Plant with side view of flower
Photos by © David Kuehn
Common Name The Spiny Leafed Dendrobium
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas, Laos, Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra in peat swamp, hill, ridge-top and lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1520 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with thin to stout, zig-zag, simple, erect to pendent stems carrying almost terete, flattened, acute, curved leaves all held in a single plane and blooms in the fall on a short, axillary to lateral, single flowered inflorescence arising at or near the apex of leafy stems and in small clusters on leafless stems.
Synonyms Aporum albicolor (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983; Aporum capitellatum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Aporum kentrophyllum (Hook.f.) Brieger 1981; Callista kentrophylla (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium albicolor Ridl. 1896; Dendrobium capitellatum J.J.Sm. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Hooker's Icones Planetarum Vol 21 Hooker 1890 drawing ok; Materials For a Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Part 1 Ridley 1907; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D albicolor; Contributions to the Knowledge of the Orchid Flora of Sumatra Schlechter 1911 as D capitellatum; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 as Aporum kentrophyllum photo plant only; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 photo plant only; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing fide/photo good; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo ok; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2001 as D capitellatum; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 photo ok; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide to the first photo; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Hyan Tun [Mr Myanmar] 2014 Photo fide ;
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