Dendrobium nudum (Blume) Lindl.

 Dendrobium nudum (Blume) Lindl.; Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 84 1830.

Dendrobium nudum (Blume) Lindl.; Photos Dick Suyanto

Dendrobium nudum (Blume) Lindl. Photos by José Santos da Costa

its native range is W. Malesia.

Latinh Name: 

Dendrobium nudum (Blume) Lindl.

Synonym:

Anisopetala nuda (Blume) M.A.Clem.

Callista aurorosea (Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Callista nuda (Blume) Kuntze

Dendrobium auroroseum Rchb.f.

Onychium nudum Blume

Pedilonum auroroseum (Rchb.f.) Rauschert

English Name:

The Naked Dendrobium.

Description: 

With basally slender, nodding, clustered stems carrying 5, linear-lanceolate leaves that gradually decrease in size towards the apex and have dark speckled leaf sheaths that blooms on a short, few 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with simultaneously opening flowers arising from the nodes near the apex of the leafless cane occuring in the spring.

Distribution:

Borneo, Jawa, Sumatera.

Ecological:

At elevations of 1200 to 2000 m in dry and wet forests but always in the shade as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

3.6 cm.

Cultivation:

Light:

Bright; 2500-3500 Footcandles (very bright indirect light).

Temperature:

Intermediate to Warm; 58°F min. to 88°F max.

Watering:

Moist; 3-5 waterings per week (let dry lightly between waterings).

Type: