Dendrobium fimbriatum Hooker 1830 SECTION Holochrysa Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George
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Common Name The Fringe-Lipped Dendrobium - In Thailand - Waew mayura - Ueang kham noi - Ueang kham foi - Ueang kham ta dam - In China Liu SU Shi Hu
Flower Size 3" [to 7.5 cm]
This species is from Hainan and southeastern China, western Himalayas, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Assam India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Mynamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos and Vietnam in humid, mossy mixed and coniferous forests at elevations of 800-2400 meters and is a large-sized, cold to warm growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with long, erect, arching or pendulous, light-yellow green when aged, to 4' [120 cm] long, stems that are thickest in the middle and have many oblong, to lanceolate, acute or acuminate deciduous leaves that flowers in March through May but can bloom at most any time on a pendant, axillary, many [6 to 15] flowered raceme that arises from the nodes near the apex of leafless and mature canes and has sour smelling flowers and watering should be heaviest in the summer but they need some water even during their winter rest. They have a pendant growth habit so they are best mounted on a slab of tree fern or cork.
Synonyms Callista fimbriata (Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Callista normalis (Falc.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium normale Falc. 1839; Dendrobium paxtonii Paxt. 1839
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing hmm; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as D normale drawing hmm; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 photo fide; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 9 1984 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991 as D normale; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok/photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as D normale Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; 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; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok
Dendrobium fimbriatum Hooker var oculatum 1830
Flower Closeup Photo by Art Vogel.
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Common Name The Fringed-Lipped Orchid With An Oval Eye
Flower Size 3 1/2" [8.75 cm]
More common than the type in cultivation, it is more robust in stature as well as having larger sour-smelling flowers which have two blackish brown splotches on the disc of the lip which appear in the spring on the older leafless pseudobulbs with 8 to 15 flowers on a pendulous, 8" [20 cm] long inflorescence .
Synonyms Callista oculata (Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium occultum Ames 1933
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 5 1960 photo; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 9 1984 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 2 1994 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide;
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