Dendrobium dantaniense Guillame. 1957 SECTION Breviflores Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

LATE To EARLY

Common Name The Dantan Dendrobium

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

Found in Thailand and Vietnam as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with erect, clustered, canes that are narrowest below and swollen above carrying 4 to 6 oblong to lanceolate leaves that blooms on a short inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex of the cane and having tightly clustered flowers occuring in the Late Spring and Early summer

Synonyms Dendrobium alterum Seidenfadden 1985

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide;

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