Dendrobium devonianum Paxton 1840 SECTION Dendrobium Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden Copyright ©
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Common Name Devon's Dendrobium [English Count and Orchid Enthusiast 1800's] - in Thailand - Miang - Sai man pra in - Ueang sai pha kang - In China Chi Ban Shi Hu
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Southern China and Vietnam in thick montane forests on tree trunks as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters with pendulous, cylindric, slender, slightly fleshy, sunbranched, many noded stems carrying narrowly ovate-lanceolate, leathery, clasping sheath base, long acuminate leaves where it blooms in the late winter and spring with an erect to spreading, 12 to 13" [30 to 32.5 cm] long, many [12 to 18] flowered inflorescence with long-lived, fleshy, fragrant flowers arising from the nodes near the apex of leafless, to 3' [1m] long, canes.
Synonyms Callista devoniana (Paxton) Kuntze 1891; Callista moulmeinensis (Parish ex Hook. f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium brevifolium Hort. ex Lindley 1859; Dendrobium devonianum var. rhodoneurum Rchb.f. 1868 ; Dendrobium moulmeinense Parish ex Hook. f. 1890; Dendrobium pictum Griff. ex Lindl. 1859; Dendrobium pulchellum Lindley non Loddiges or Roxbury; Dendrobium pulchellum var devonianum [Paxton] Rchb.f
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1890 as D moulmeinense drawing ok; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 photo; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo hmm; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D moulmeinense; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 7 2004 drawing; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; 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 Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
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