Diplocaulobium clemensiae (Ames) A.D.Hawkes 1957 SECTION Diplocaulobium

Lip detail Photos by © Jim Cootes and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Lip detail? Photo by © Ronnie Boos and The RV Orchid Talk Website

Common Name or Meaning Clemens' Diplocaulobium [American Female Orchid Collector in Malesia early 1900's]

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations of 500 to 800 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with pseudobulbs carrying a single, narrowly oblong, fleshy, unequally bilobed apically leaf that blooms in the winter soon after a decided temperature drop on a single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Dendrobium clemensiae Ames 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Dendrobium clemensiae; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 3 2003 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 2 2007 photo; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2009 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of the Philippines Cootes and Tiong 2015 photo fide;

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