Dendrobium findlayanum Par. & Rchb.f 1874 SECTION Dendrobium
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Photo by David Jubineau ©
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Common Name Findlay's Dendrobium {English Collector in Borneo 1800's] - In Thailand - Phuang yok - In China Bang Jie Shi Hu
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos at altitudes of 1000 to 1700 meters in mixed forests as a medium to large sized, cool growing epiphytic orchid that is with compressed bilaterally, each node swollen, to 7 nodes, green turning yellow, to 22" [50 cm] long stems that are sulcate with age and carry deciduous, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, acute, bright green leaves and blooms in the winter and spring on a very short, axillary, racemose inflorescence that arises from the nodes near the apex of mature leafless canes with a few, longlasting, color variable, fragrant flowers.
From fall to winter water should be reduced but in late winter fertilizer and water should be stopped altogether and only resumed with the onset of new growth.
Synonyms Callista findlayana (Parish & Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium findleyanum Par. & Rchb.f 1874 mispelling
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as Dendrobium findleyanum sic; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing/photo fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombay 1992 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997 photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 6 2006/7 photo; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; 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; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #4 2010 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 Orchid Digest Vol 78 #2 2014 photo fide; A Guide to the Orchids of Myanmar Kurzweil & Lwin 2014 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Hyan Tun [Mr Myanmar] 2014 Photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #5 2019 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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