Dendrobium tricuspe (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Crumenata
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the JanyRenz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Three Keeled Dendrobium [refers to the lip]
Flower Size .24 to .6" [.6 to 1.5 cm]
Found in Java, Sumatra and Sarawak and Brunei Borneo at elevations of 100 to 400 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with densely clustered, simple to occasionally branchng, slightly fractiflex, leafy below, distal portions leafless, laterally compressed, three noded, .8" [2 cm] above the base narrowly elliptic to fusifrm, flattened stems carrying 3 to 7, linear-lanceolate, minutely obliquely obtusely bilobed, thin textured, minutely papillose leaves that blooms on a successively single flowered inflorescence arising from the fasciculate, scarious brown bracts along the distal, leafless portion of the stem.
Synonyms Aporum tricuspis (Blume) Rauschert 1983; Callista tricuspis (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Ceraia tricuspis (Blume) M.A.Clem. 2003; Ceraia kohlmeyeriana (Teijsm. & Binn. ex Miq.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Dendrobium kohlmeyerianum Teijsm. & Binn. ex Miq. 1864; *Onychium tricuspe Blume 1825;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Das Pflanzenreich Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2001; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 15 2015;
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