Dendrobium limii J.J.Wood 1994 SECTION Crumenata Pfitzer 1889

Photo by © Rod Rice

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © J J Wood 1994

Part shade LATE Fall EARLYWinter

Common Name Lim's Dendrobium [Malaysian Collector of the type species current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm wide .6" 1.5 cm] long]

Found in Sabah Borneo as a small to medium sized epiphyte with slender, branching stems carrying terete, not sulcate leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a short, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with oblong-elliptic, obtuse, hyaline floral bracts and carrying ephemeral flowers with transluscent white sepals, the tips of the lateral sepals suffused pink, the petals are white, suffused with pinkl basally and a white lip with 2 purple spots.

Synonyms Ceraia limii (J.J.Wood) M.A.Clem.2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 J J Wood 1997 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 photo fide;

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