Dendrobium lobatum (Blume) Miq. 1859 SECTION Aporum
Photo by © Art Vogel
Photo by André Schuiteman, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Lobed Dendrobium
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Borneo, Java, Malaysia and Sumatra large trees next to rivers and in freshwater swamps at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm, pendant growing epiphyte with a clumping, flaccid, leafy throughout, often branching, pendulous stem with small, acute, imbricate, conduplicate leaves and blooms in the winter and summer on a very short, axillary, successively single flowered inflorescence, carrying non-resupinate flowers
Synonyms *Aporum lobatum Blume 1825; Callista lobata (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium bicornutum Schltr. 1906; Dendrobium rhizophoreti Ridl. 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Materials For a Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Part 1 Ridley 1907 as D rhizophoreti; ; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Vol 1 Holttum 1953 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 not = D anceps; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen lieferung 11 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as Aporum lobatum; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfadden 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as D bicornutum; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Living with Orchids in Sumatra Landau 1996 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014
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