Dendrobium singulare Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920 SECTION Crumenata

Photo by © Peter Maxwell

Another Flower what was D ventripes

Photo by © Eric Hunt

Common Name The Unique Dendrobium

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Sarawak and Sabah Borneo in lower to upper montane mossy forests at elevations of 1200 to 2600 meters as a small to large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with clustered, suberect, shiny yellow, dark banded at nodes, somewhat zigzag, flattened and enveloped by clasping leaf sheaths and carrying many, distichous, rigid, lanceolate, abruptly tapering to a slender apex leaves that blooms in the fall on a very short, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from tufts of dry scales towards the apex of each leafless and leafy canes with the flowers held close to the stem

Many references have this species as D ventripes but they have been found to be conspecific and so this name takes precedence.

Synonyms Ceraia ventripes (Carr) M.A.Clem. 2003; Dendrobium ventripes Carr 1935

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 as D ventripes drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as D ventripes; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996 as D ventripes; The Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 Wood 1997 as D ventripes drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001 as D ventripes; The Dendrobiums Wood 2006 as D ventripes; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of Borneo J J Wood 2013 photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide

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