Dendrobium friedericksianum Rchb.f 1887 SECTION Dendrobium Photo by Woon Leng Nursery

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Common Name Friederick's Dendrobium - in Thailand - Lueang chantabun

Flower Size more than 1 3/4" [more than 4 cm]

A deciduous leafed, spring bloomer on an axillary, short, racemose inflorescence with 2 to 4, waxy, long-lived flowers that arises from the nodes near the apex of leafless canes that comes from Thailand and Malaysia where it is found in low elevations in tall trees at least 20 meters up so it is a hot to cool growing, medium sized, epiphytic plant with suberect, basally slender and cylindrical to clavate above, light yellow stems carrying several quicly deciduous leaves that needs a slight lessening of water and holding of fertilizer until the spring.

Synonyms Dendrobium friedericksianum var oculatum Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

Dendrobium friedericksianum var oculatum Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 Photo courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech

A variety with red blotches on either side of the base of the lip.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970;

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