Dendrobium amboinense Hook. 1856 SECTION Fugacia Photo by S. Hebler ©
Plant Photos by Ian Chung ©
Common Name or Meaning The Amboin Island Dendrobium
Flower Size 3 to 7" [7.5 to 18cm]?
Found in Amboin of the Moluccas Islands as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing orchid with club-shaped, jointed, basally swollen canes carrying 2 to 3 apical, leathery, oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on short 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence ariosing from the nodes at the apex of the cane and carry very short-lived, fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Callista amboinensis (Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Euphlebium amboinense (Hook.) Brieger 1981
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957 Drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 3 1958 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Baker's 1996; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009 drawing/photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 photo fide
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