Kamis, 21 Februari 2013

Dendrobium sanguinolentum Lindl. 1842

 Dendrobium sanguinolentum Lindl. 1842 
Plant blooms from summer to fall with two to six 2.5 cm wide flowers. Plant is found growing in foothills and roadsides of Borneo at elevations of 0 to 900 meters Plant grows in warm to hot 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. Scientific Classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Asparagales Family:Orchidaceae Subfamily: Epidendroideae Tribe: Dendrobieae (red.http://orchids.wikia.com/foto.flens)


Bulbophyllum corolliferum J.J.Sm. 1917

 Bulbophyllum corolliferum J.J.Sm. 1917 
Found in the Philippines?, Thailand, Vietnam?, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, India? and Singapore in the lowlands on mangroves as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte requiring light shade and high humidity. It has garlic shaped, shortly ovoid, irregularily 4 to 5 sided, truncate pseudobulbs with a single, apical, oblanceolate, obtuse and emarginate, tapered below to a shortly petiolate leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, slender, reddish, 4.4 to 5.6" [11 to 14 cm cm] long inflorescence with several [8 to 10] flowers held in an umbel beneath the leaf. Often cited as Cirrhopetalum curtisii but I am going with Comber on this one and if Bulbophyllum is going to be used then B corolliferum has precedence. Synonyms Bulbophyllum curtisi [Hkr.f] J.J.Sm not Ridley 1912; Bulbophyllum curtisi var purpureum J.J.Sm. 1933; Cirrhopetalum curtisii Hkr.f 1927; Cirrhopetalum curtisii var. lutescens Garay 1999; Cirrhopetalum curtisii var. purpureum (Ridl.) Garay 1999; Phyllorkis ridleyana (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891 (red.http://www.orchidspecies.com/foto.flens)