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Orchid Species: Dendrobium ridleyi

Kew currently accepted name is Dendrochilum pallidiflavens

Dendrobium ridleyi is an orchid species identified by Ames in 1921. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrochilum pallidiflavens.
Genus
Dendrobium (Den.)
Grex
ridleyi
Parents
Species
Author
Ames
Year
1921
ORIGIN: Found in peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Thailand and the Philippines on trees near streams at elevations of 50 to 1800 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with very green plants in shade at lower elevations or in high altitudes as a lithophyte where most parts of the plant are orange, both types have an orange rhizome that creeps and branches and has 2.4 [6 cm] between each ovoid to conical, tilted to the side, orange to dull green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a rigid, arching, 5 to 6 [12.5 to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying many wide open, fragrant [sometimes not] flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [6 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc pallidiflavens 1825 Blume
Add+ Acoridium Aco brevilabratum 1904 (Rendle) Rolfe
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc album 1896 Ridl.
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc brevilabratum 1907 (Rendle) Pfitzer in H.G.A.Engler (ed.)
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc bulbophylloides 1921 Schltr.
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc conopseum 1894 Ridl.
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc ellipticum 1899 Ridl.
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc intermedium 1908 Ridl.
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc micranthum 1906 Schltr.
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc pallideflavens
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc pteriphilum 1907 (Rolfe) Pfitzer in H.G.A.Engler (ed.)
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc spathulatum 1908 Ridl.
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc weberi 1914 Ames
Add+ Platyclinis Pns brevilabrata 1901 Rendle
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc viride 1986 Seidenf.
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb pteriphilum 1894 Rolfe
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Ddc. pallidiflavens 'Harvey Cheyne' (2014) Ddc. intermedium 'Natural World' (2002)
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