Dendrobium changjiangense S.J.Cheng & C.Z.Tang 1980 SECTION Oxystophyllum [Bl.]Lindl. Photo by © www.plant.ac.cn Zhiwutong.com Website

Common Name or Meaning The Chanjian Dendrobium [A city in Hainan China] - In China Ni Shu Hu

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Haina China in open montane forests on tree trunks or on rocks in mountain valleys at elevations around 1000 meters as a minaiture sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect to decumbent, branched or not stem enveloped completely by imbricate leaf sheaths and carrying distichous, ascending, densely telescopic, laterally compressed, shortly sword-shaped, thickly fleshy leaves that blooms on often subterminal, about .4" [1 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate, membraneous, acute floral bracts and carrying, spreading, thickly fleshy flowers.

Synonyms Oxystophyllum changjiangense (S.J.Cheng & C.Z.Tang) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Oxystophyllum changjiangense; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide

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