Diplocaulobium brevicolle (J.J.Sm.) Kraenzl.1910 SECTION Diplocaulobium
Photo by © Art Vogel
Photos by © Photo by Dian Rachmawaty
Common Name The Short Column Diplocaulobium
Flower Size 1.32" [3.3 cm]
Found in Borneo in mixed dipterocarp forests on tree trunks at elevations of 50 to 700 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with congested, clump-forming, narrowly ovate, narrowing distally, laterally flattened, longitudinally sulcate,dark green to straw colored pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear, equally acutely bidentate, attenuate base, sessile, erect, single nerved leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a straw colored sheath.
Synonyms *Dendrobium brevicolle J.J.Sm. 1904
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912; Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo pg273 plate 9F 1994 as D vanleeuwenii photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo J J Wood 2014 drawing/photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroidee Pt 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014 as Dendrobium brevicolle drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014 as Dendrobium brevicolle drawing fide
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