Dendrobium lohokii J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb 2008
Photo by Gary Yong Gee © and his Orchid Website
Photos by © Pak Sheikh and Orchids Online Australia Website
Common Name Lohok's Dendrobium [Bornean Orchid Enthusiast and project head of Poring Orchid Conservation Center in Sabah later 1900's]
Flower Size 3/4 to 1" [1.7 to 2.5 cm]
Found in Sabah and Brunei Borneo in heath and hill forests at elevations of 400 to 900 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, erect, becoming pendulous, leafy stems carrying many, distichous, thin textured, coriaceous, dark green, narrowly oblong to oblong-elliptic, minutely unequally subacutely bilobed leaves that blooms in the winter on a single flowered inflorescence arising mostly on older leafless stems with usually 2 to 3 per stem.
"Similar to D daimandaui D hepaticum and D uniflorum but differs from all three in the distinctive, tall, fleshy, lamellate, rather "Y" shaped keel of the lip." J J Wood 2014
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 1 2008 drawing/photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 10 2012 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2013 photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide
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