Dendrobium quadrilobatum

Dendrobium quadrilobatum Carr, Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 5: 4 (1929).

Dendrobium quadrilobatum  Carr, Photo by Alfred Ng 

Dendrobium quadrilobatum  Carr, Photo by Khairul Hafizi

its native range is Peninsula Malaysia, Borneo (Kalimantan).

Latin Name: 

Dendrobium quadrilobatum  Carr

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Aporum quadrilobatum (Carr) Rauschert.

English Name:

The Four Lobed Dendrobium (refers to the lip apex).

Description: 

As a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, leafy stems, enveloped completely by imbricate, leafbearing sheaths and carrying oblong-triangular, purple suffused, acute, conduplicate leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on short, axillary, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from nodes towards the apex of the stem.

Distribution:

Borneo, Malaya.

Ecological:

On trunks and branches of trees along rivers at elevations around 100 to 700 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall and winter.

Flower size:

1.1 cm.

Cultivation:

Plants generally require a reduction of watering or with holding of water during the winter due to dormancy period. Plants grow in a variety of temperature ranges and lighting ranges which is dependent on the species. Plants can usually be mounted.

Type:

Carr, C.E. [K170], Malaysia 9374.000 Unknown type material

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/628399-1

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:628399-1

- orchids.fandom.com