Dendrobium ustulatum Carr 1932 SECTION Bolbidium

Photo by The Environmental Awareness Cameron Highlands Website

Common Name The Burned Red Dendrobium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in penninsular Malaysia and Sabah and Sarawak Borneo in hill forests at elevations around 900 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphye with alternate, prostate, 4 internoded, olive yellow stems the basal one terete, the middle ones, quadrangular, oblong-globose, abruptly dilated at the base, the upper one minute and supporting the 2, apical, movate-oblong, very fleshy, dark green often suffused with red leaves that blooms in the summer from a tuft of dry bracts, .8" [2 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION I have no way of personally verifying this determination so please use with caution!!!!

Synonyms Bolbodium ustulatum (Carr) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Orchids of Borneo J J Wood 2014 drawing/photo fide

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