~SECTION Rhopalanthe Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Common Name The Belly-Like Column Foot Dendrobium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo in lower to upper montane mossy and elfin forests at elevations of 1200 to 2600 meters as a just large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, laterally flattened, swollen in the lower third 2 to 3 nodes above the base, leafy towards the apex stems carrying many lanceolate to oblong lanceolate, bilobed apically and narrowed below, basally twisted and clasping leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on very short, single flowered inflorescence

I have the same photo as D singulare but all references have this as D ventripes

Synonyms Ceraia ventripes (Carr) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fide ; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2001

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