Dendrobium densiflorum Lindl. ex Wall. 1829 SECTION Densiflorum Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Ida Carter

FragrancePart sunColdTo WarmWinter To Fall

Common Name The Densely Flowered Dendrobium - In China Mi Hua Shi Hu

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in the Assam, Bangladesh, Eastern Himalayas, Nepal Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Tibet, Hainan and southern China as a small to medium sized epiphyte or occasional lithophyte, on moss covered trunks or branches of trees at altitudes of 1100 to 1830 meters with erect, tufted, 7 to 12 noded, obscurely 4 angled, fusiform or clavate, 12" [30 cm] long stems with each node half covered by a white sheath and carrying 3 to 5 , towards the apex, elliptic or ovate, persistent, acute leaves where it can bloom from the winter through the fall on pendant, 8" [20 cm], cylindrical, densly flowered racemes with scented, short-lived flowers that arise from nodes at or near the apex of the pseudobulb. This species requires a distinct dry rest from water and fertilizer through the winter months and should be resumed with the onset of new growth in the spring.

Synonyms Callista densiflora (Lindl. ex Wall.) Kuntze 1891; Callista densiflora (Wall.) Brieger 1981; Callista guibertii (Carrière) M.A.Clem. 2003; Dendrobium clavatum Wall. 1828; Dendrobium griffithianum Lindl. 1836 var. guibertii [Carriere] Veitch; Dendrobium guiberti Carr 1876; Dendrobium schroederi Dombrain 1870; Epidendrum dumunsuttu Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. 1830

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing ok; Die Orchideen #1 1-4 tafel 1&2 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 6 1981 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 4 1982 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 7 1994 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 5 1997 photo; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 2 1998 photo; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 no 1 2008 photo; 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; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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