Dendrobium cumulatum Lindl. 1855 SECTION Calcarifera Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name The Crowded-Inflorescence Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 to 1 3/4"

Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Borneo in tropical valleys or lower montane or swamp peat forests at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pendulous, basally narrowed and laterally flattened pseudobulbs carrying 4 to 6 3 to 4" leaves that blooms in the winter and summer on a 4" [10cm] long, racemose inflorescence with vanilla scented, transparent flowers arising from lateral nodes on leafed and leafless canes.

Synonyms Callista cumulata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium eoum Ridl. 1896; Eurycaulis cumulatus (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Pedilonum eoum (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 3 1958 drawing; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as D eoum; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing fide/photo not = D jiewhoei; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide;

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