Dendrobium farmeri Paxton 1849 SECTION Densiflorum Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Farmer's Dendrobium [English Supervisor In Calcuta Botanical Garden 1800's]

Flower Size To 2" [to 5 cm]

This pendulous, growing epiphyte has clavate or fusiform, 4 angled above stems carrying 2 to 4, towards the apex, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate leaves and is a spring blooming orchid that has axillary, to 8" [20 cm] long, many densly flowered, cylindrical racemose inflorescence that arise from the nodes near the apex of leafless and leafed canes and is found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and Malaysia in evergreen lowland forests and primary montane forests at elevations of 150 to 1000 meters on primary growth tall trees high up over rivercourses and prefers some shade and heavy watering with a short winter rest and is an warm to hot grower.

Synonyms Callista densiflora (Lindl. ex Wall.) Kuntze var farmeri 1891; Callista farmeri (Paxton) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium densiflorum Lindley var farmerii

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 5 1997 photo; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 no 1 2008 photo

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