Dendrobium pseudoclavator J.J.Wood 2010 SECTION Crumenata

Photo by © Steven Chew

Common Name The False D clavator Dendrobium [refers to its resemblance to D clavator]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations around 1300 to 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with clustered, erect to spreading, distal portion leafless, upper internodes simple, lower 1 to 2 internodes swollen, elliptic to fusiform, shallowly 6-ridged pseudobulb carrying terete, acute, borne at an acute angle to the stem leaves that blooms in the fall on a sessile, arising from the nodes opposite the leaves on the distal, leafless portion of the stem, succsessively single flowered inflorescence

"Very similar in habit to D clavator but distinguished by the narrowly oblong lip which is shallowly bifurcate and irregularily toothed at the apex." J J Wood 2014

Synonyms

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

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