Dendrobium strongyloflorum J.J.Wood 2008 SECTION Crumenata

Photos by © Anthony Lamb, Steven Chew and Ed de Vogel

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Aporum-Like Dendrobium [refers to its resemblance to a species in the section Strongyle - now section Aporum]

Flower Size .32" [.8 cm]

Found in Sabah and Sarawak Borneo in lower and upper montane forests at elevations around 1200 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with clustered, simple, wiry, distal portion often leafless, lower 1 to 2 internodes swollen, ovoid to fusiform, olove green to brownish olive pseudobulb carrying terete, acicular, the longest in the middle of the stem, sulcate, borne at an acute angle to the stem, straight to gently recurved leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a sessile, arising from the groups of fasciculate, chaffy bracts along the distal, leafy and leafless portion of the stem, succsessively single flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying fragile, thin, diaphanous flowers

"Closely allied to D torajaense but is distinguished by the smaller flowers with a much shorter, narrower lip with shorter keels on the disc. Also separated from D tenellum by the narrower, oblong, shallowly obtusely bilobulate lip with 2 low, distally slightly papillose keels on the disc." J J Wood 2014

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 drawing/photo fide

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