Dendrobium gratiosissimum Rchb. f. 1865 SECTION Dendrobium Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©

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Common Name The Very Graceful Dendrobium - In Thailand - King dam - Ueang mieng

Flower Size 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm]

Found from Hainan China, Assam, Laos, Thailand Vietnam and Burma in evergreen, semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 700 meters and primary montane forests at elevations of 500 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte with pendulous, stout, basally narrow, nodally swollen canes that are yellow with purple stripes carrying 8 to 12, deciduous, linear to ovate-lanceolate, leathery leaves that are bidentate apically that blooms in the spring on a short , purplish inflorescence that arise from the nodes near the apex of the cane carrying 1 to 3, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Callista boxaleii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Callista gratiosissima (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium boxallii Rchb. f. 1874; Dendrobium bullerianum Bateman 1867

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1874 Drawing; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1874 as D boxallii; Drawing; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D boxallii; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 no 1 1995 photo; 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; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007;