Dendrobium chrysanthum Wallich ex Lindley 1828 SECTION Dendrobium Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler.©

Flower and Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

FragrancePart sunCoolTo WarmSpringTo Fall

Common Name The Golden Yellow Flowered Dendrobium - in Thailand - Ueang thian - Ueang kham sai - Ueang pu loei - Bai morakot - In China Shu Hua Shi Hu

Flower Size 1 1/2 to 2" [3.75 to 5 cm]

This large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte, lithophyte on limestone cliffs in narrow crevasses and terrestrial species is widespread through the Himalayan foothills of the western Himalayas, Assam India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests and primary, broadleafed, evergreen, lowland forests at an elevation of 350 to 2200 meters with pendulous, many noded, sulcate, to 5' [150 cm] long, stems carrying ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, bright shiney green leaves. It blooms from April till November on an axillary, very short, opposite of leaves, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence that arise on the nodes on the upper portion of an immature leafed pseudobulb. The inflorescence arises opposite of the leaves with 1 to 3 fragrant, fleshy flowers and needs a drier winter rest to set the blooms for the following spring. This species is best placed in a wire basket with well draining media to accommodate their pendant growth habit.

Synonyms Callista chrysantha (Wall.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium chrysanthum var. anophthalama Rchb.f. 1883; Dendrobium chrysanthum var. microphthalama Rchb.f. 1879; Dendrobium paxtonii Lindley not Paxton 1839

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 3 1958 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 1 2009 photo; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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