Dendrobium bakoense J.J.Wood 2008 SECTION Conostalix

Drawing by © Linda Gurr

Common Name The Bako Dendrobium [A Bornean Natianal Park in Sarawak]

Flower Size .6 to .72" [1.5 to 1.8 cm] long

Found in Sarawak Borneo in low and open kerangas on sandstone cliffs near to the sea, swamps, padang scrub, and in damp soil beside streams at elevations of 100 to 200 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with erect, branching, especially in the distal end, wiry, leafy above stems carrying spreading, very narrowly linear, becoming canaliculate when dry, entire and acute to acuminate to unequally, acutely bilobed leaves with brown hirsute sheaths that blooms in the summer on a more or less sessile, emerging through the middle of the leaf sheath opposite the blade on an upper portion of the stem, rachis .08" [2 mm] long, emerging through a pair of pale, imbricate bracts, single flowered inflorescence with ovate, obtuse, pale, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying most likely non-resupinate, pure white flowers.

Related to D attenuatum but can be distinguished by the narrower leaves, which may or may not be acutely bilobed, and the much larger flowers. The claew of the lip is dilated, and obtusely winged in the middle, while the mid lobe lacks the 2 central swellings that is characteristic of D attenuatum.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 drawing/photo fide

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