Dendrobium devogelii J.J.Wood 2008 SECTION Crumenata

Drawing by © Linda Gurr

Common Name De Vogel's Dendrobium [Dutch Botanist and Malesian orchid specialist current]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm] long

Found in Kalimantan Borneo in riverine forests at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with flattened, branching, distal portion leafless, lower 2 internodes swollen into a fusiform, slightly ribbed pseudobulb carrying narrowly oblong-elliptic, obtuse, , minutely mucronate, tough, coriaceous, sessile leaves that blooms on a sessile, arising through fasciculate bracts along the distal portion of the leafless stem, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuuminate, thin, laminar, brownish , somewhat shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with whitish sepals with bright violet nerves and markings, petals whitish with a bright violet mid nerve and apex, lip whitish, the front of the callus yellow, mid-lobe bright violet with paler margins.

"Allied to D planibulbe but distinguished by the combination of narrowly oblong-elliptic leaves, the flowers borne on the leafless apical portion of the atem, an ovate dorsal sepal which is narrowed distally and has an involute margin, narrowly oblong, truncate4 lip side lobes, a triangular, acute, finely, narrowly lacinate mid-lobe and a shelflike mediam callus that projects abover the base of the mid-lobe. " Wood 2014

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

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