Dendrobium kurashigei T.Yukawa 1998 SECTION Crumenata

Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Web Page

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Common Name Kurashige's Dendrobium [Japanese Original Collector of type current]

Flower Size 1/4" [7 mm]

Found in Sabah and Kalimantan Borneo in hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 900 to 2200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect to pendant, wiry, 4 ridged stems that often keiki and carrying a few, linear to almost acicular, shallowly "V"-shaped, minutely, acutely unequally bilobed apically, rigid leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on several, on the distal portion of the stem, short, successively few flowered inflorescence

J J Wood puts together this group of related species, D lamelluliferum , D alabense, D kurashigei, D lumakuense, D pseudokurashigei and D puberulingue which may all be different or a widely variable species. More research needs to be done to address this confusing group.

Synonyms Ceraia kurashigei (T.Yukawa) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2001; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide

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