Dendrobium paniferum J.J.Sm. 1914 SECTION Oxystophyllum

Plant and Flower Photos by J B Comber © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Bunch Carrying Dendrobium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Java at elevations around 760 meters as a medium sized, warm growing, pendulous epiphyte with a pendent stem envloped completely by imbricate leaf bearing sheaths carrying imbricate, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Oxystophyllum paniferum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java 1990 J B Comber photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo good;

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