Dendrobium pandaneti Ridl. 1896 SECTION Distichophyllae
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Photo by © J.B. Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Drawing courtesy of Swiss Orchid Foundation and the Jany Renz Herbarium
Common Name The Pandan Growing Dendrobium
Flower Size .8" to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]
Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo in lowland forests on palms and pandans at elevations of 400 to 600 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with shiny green to yellow, cylindric, smooth, often branching stems carrying 10 to 13 per growth, linear-oblong, thin, shiny, pale green, two ranked, gradually narrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the spring on several, from the apical nodes of the stem, racemose 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Dendrobium mega Kraenzl. 1910; Distichorchis pandaneti (Ridl.) M.A.Clem. 2003
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; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 D mega; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 #9 1958 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide/photo ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo no?; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo maybe; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 10 2012 photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide
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