Epigeneium speculum (J.J.Sm.) Summerh. 1957 SECTION Racemosum
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Common Name The Mirrored Epigeneium [refers to the shiny callus on the lip]
Flower Size .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm]
Found in Borneo in hill forests and lowland montane forests at elevations of 400 to 1300 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial in mossy clumps with a long creeping rhizome with 2.4" [6 cm] between each ovate to oblong-elliptic, obtusely 4 angled, dark olive green pseudobulb enveloped in youth by an obtuse cataphyl and carrying 2, apical, oblong to oblong-elliptic to elliptic, obtuse, shallowly retuse, tough, leathery, adaxial suface minutely rugulose, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on 1 to 2, 2 to 4.4" [5 to 11 cm] long, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate acute floral bracts and carrying sweetly scented flowers
Synonyms *Dendrobium speculum J.J.Sm. 1907; Katherinea speculum (J.J.Sm.) A.D.Hawkes 1956; Sarcopodium speculum (J.J.Sm.) Carr 1935
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1012 as Dendrobium speculum; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 photo good; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photos fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo fide
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