Dendrobium denneanum Kerr 1933 SECTION Holochrysa Photo by © China Plant Photo Website

Common Name The Denne Dendrobium In China - Die Qiao Shi Hu

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found the Chinese Himalayas, western Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Taiwan on tree trunks in open forests at elevations of 600 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with robust stems carrying oblanceolate leaves that blooms on a subapical, on leafless stems, stiffly arching, 2 to 5.6" [5 to 14 cm] long, to 7 flowered inflorescence with prominent floral bracts

Synonyms Callista clavata Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium aurantiacum var. denneanum (Kerr) Z.H. Tsi 1999; Dendrobium clavatum Wall. ex Paxton 1852; Dendrobium rolfei A.D. Hawkes & A.H. Heller 1957;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing ok; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as D clavatum; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996 as syn to D chryseum; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 as D aurantiacum var denneanum photo fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 as D aurantiacum var denneanum photo ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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