Dendrobium acerosumLindl.

WFO wfo-0000938300 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Dendrobium acerosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. a Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-07-06 / obs. 102254963
Dendrobium acerosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. b Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102254926
Dendrobium acerosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. c Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102254954
Dendrobium acerosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. d Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102255040
Dendrobium acerosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. e Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102255023
Dendrobium acerosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. f Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102255014
Dendrobium acerosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. g Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102254976
Dendrobium acerosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. h Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102254942

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Dendrobium acerosum is native: Borneo, Malaya, Myanmar, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam BorneoMalayaMyanmarSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Dendrobium acerosum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aporum acerosum (Lindl.) Brieger
  • Aporum calceolariae (J.Koenig) M.A.Clem.
  • Aporum subteres Griff.
  • Callista acerosa (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Callista subteres (Griff.) Kuntze
  • Cymbidium calceolaria (J.Koenig) Willd.
  • Dendrobium subteres (Griff.) Lindl.
  • Epidendrum calceolariae J.Koenig

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.