Dendrobium tenue J.J.Sm. 1917 SECTION Crumenata

Photo by © Petrus Kurniawan and Flickr Orchid Website

Common Name The Delicate Dendrobium [refers to the stems]

Flower Size .52 to .6" [1.3 to 1.5 cm]

Found only in Borneo in lowlands and hill forests at elevations of sea level to 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, very slender, basally club shaped, dark olive green stems carrrying lax, several, dirty green, terete, subulate-acuminate, fleshy leaves that blooms in the summer on a short, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the stem.

"Similar to Dendrobium aciculare in the esulcate leaves, but differs in the form of the pseudobulbs, longer leaves, larger flowers, not ellipticpetals and a differently shaped lip." J J Smith 1917

Synonyms Aporum tenue (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Ceraia tenuis (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 drawing fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide

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