Dendrobium histrionicum (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1914 SECTION Holochyrsa Photo by The Genus Dendrobium Website SECTION Densiflora

Common Name The Enchanting Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.1 cm]

Found in Myanmar at elevations around 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect, compressed, 2 node, ovoid stems carrying about 4, crowded subterminally leaves that blooms in the spring on a pseudoterminal, to 2 flowered inflorescence often carrying cleistogamous flowers that last one day,

Similar to D brymerianum but differs in the longer, narrower and smaller aspect of the flower and less fimbriate to entire margins to the lip as well as the spindle shaped pseudobulbs

CAUTION I have no way of verifying these determination so please use with caution!!!!!

Synonyms *Dendrobium brymerianum var. histrionicum Rchb.f. 1888

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo ?;

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