Dendrobium amabile O'Brien 1909 SECTION Callista

Inflorescence Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Enchanting Dendrobium

Flower Size 2.2" [5.5 cm]

Found in Hainan China and in Vietnam at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with many ridged, jointed and swollen in the middle stems that taper at both ends and carrying 2 to 5, oblong-lanceolate, leathery, persistent leaves all held towards the apex and blooms in the spring and summer on a 12" [30 cm] long, pendulous, laxly several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Callista amabilis Lour. 1790; Dendrobium bronckartii De Wild. 1906; Epidendrum callista Raeusch. 1797

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996;