Dendrobium heterocarpum Wall. ex Lindl. 1830 SECTION Dendrobium Photo by © The Thai Guide to Thailand Website

var rhombeum Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Inflorescence Photo By © Dr E F de Vogel

FragrancePart shadeCoolTo HotWinterand EARLY Spring

Common Name The Different Fruit Dendrobium - in Thailand - Ueang si tan - In China Jian Dao Chun Shi Hu

Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]

Found from The Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, Myanamr, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra, Sulawesi and the Philippines in evergreen lowland forests and primary montane forests as a small to giant sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 100 to 1800 meters with fusiform or subcylindrical, erect or pendulous, many noded, yellow with age stems with tubular basal sheaths carrying deciduous, ligulate or oblong-lanceolate, acute to obtuse leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on a lateral, short, few to several, long-lived, fragrant or not, flowered inflorescence that arises from the nodes on 2 to 3 year old leafless canes. Water and fertilizer should be reduced from the fall through the end of winter and resumed with the onset of new growth in the soring. This species is best accomodated by mounting on tree-fern or cork mounts or in a small hanging pot as it has long pendulous stems.

Synonyms Callista aurea [Lindl.] Kuntze 1891; Callista heterocarpa (Wall. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium atractodes Ridl. 1885; Dendrobium aureum Lindl. 1830; Dendrobium minahassae Kraenzlin 1910; Dendrobium rhombeum Lindley 1843;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing not; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 7 1960 photo; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; The Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species - H. Bechtel, P. Cribb, E. Launert- 1981 photo fide; Orchidaniana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo not?; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing ok/photo maybe; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobiums Bakers 1996; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Thailand Vadhanaphutti 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 HMM?; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; The Dendrobiums Wood 2006 as D rhombeum 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 ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos hmm/ok?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------