Dendrobium moquetteanum J.J.Sm. 1917
Photo and drawing © by Peter O'Byrne
Photo © by André Schuiteman, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen © and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name Moquette's Dendrobium [Plantation Owner in Borneo early 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Borneo in lower montane podosol forests always above the canopy in full sun at elevations around 400 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with 1.6 to 2.4" between each, elongate, pale, yellow-green, 4 angled canes carrying many, linear, dark green, leathery, apically bilobed and slightly twisted basally leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a few, single flowered inflorescence that arise from the nodes all along the stem.
Allied to D uniflorum but is distinguished by the stems which are borne 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] apart, on an elongated creeping rhizome and the broadly rhombic petals. Also the base of the lip is provided with large, rounded, keel-like blisters which have a sponge-like interior containing large cells with numerous air spaces between them." J J Wood 2014
Synonyms Distichorchis moquetteana (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 10 2012 photo good; A Guide to the Orchids of Borneo Wood 2013 photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide; Of Men and Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 photo/drawing fide;
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