Dendrobium erosum

"Plant grows in cool to warm temperatures with medium amounts of light. Keep plant moist and fertilize during growth season. During winter reduce watering until new shoots appear. Grow in a well drain mix of sphagnum moss or medium fir bark"

 Dendrobium erosum Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 86 (1830).

Dendrobium erosum Lindl., Photos by Mehd Halaouate

its native range is Thailand to Vanuatu.

Latinh Name: 

Dendrobium erosum Lindl. 

Synonym:

Callista erosa (Blume) Kuntze

Chromatotriccum aemulans (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

Chromatotriccum amblyogenium (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

Chromatotriccum erosum (Blume) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.

Dendrobium aegle Ridl.

Dendrobium aemulans Schltr.

Dendrobium amblyogenium Schltr.

Dendrobium inopinatum J.J.Sm.

Pedilonum aegle (Ridl.) Rauschert

Pedilonum aemulans (Schltr.) Rauschert

Pedilonum amblyogenium (Schltr.) Rauschert

Pedilonum erosum Blume

Pedilonum inopinatum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert

English Name:

The Erose Dendrobium (Refers to the erose lip apex).

Description: 

With pendant, clustered, many angled, noded and leafy stems carrying many, lanceolate leaves and blooms in the fall and winter on a very short, pendant, few to many 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence arising from the upper nodes of leafless canes with flowers that do not open fully.

Distribution:

Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vanuatu.

Ecological:

As a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte on large trees along the border of mangrove swamps and lower montane forests at elevations of 500 to 2000 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall and winter.

Flower size:

2.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Intermediate growing epiphyte.

Plant grows in cool to warm temperatures with medium amounts of light. Keep plant moist and fertilize during growth season. During winter reduce watering until new shoots appear. Grow in a well drain mix of sphagnum moss or medium fir bark.

Type:

Notes:

One of the few members of the Calyptrochilus group that is widely distributed outside New Guinea. Similar to Dendrobium rutriferum, but with an irregularly fringed, not denticulate, margin to the lip.