Dendrobium infundibulum Lindley 1859 SECTION Formosae Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
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Common Name The Small-Funneled Lip Dendrobium - in Thailand - Ueang ta hoen
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, Myanamr, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in dense forests as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic species found in deciduous trees at altitudes of 200 to 2300 meters with erect, cylindrical, to 10 leafed stem with sheaths covered with black hairs and narrowly ovate or linear-lanceolate, all along the new stem, dark green obscurely bilobed apically leaves that can bloom at almost anytime of the year but mostly spring and summer with an axillary, short, 2 flowered raceme that arises from the nodes near the apex of the older leafless canes. They need a dry winter rest from water and fertilizer and need temperatures a bit cooler than Cattleyas.
Synonyms Callista infundibulum (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium jamesianum Rchb.f 1869; Dendrobium moulmeinense hort. Low ex Warn. & Wms. 1893
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957 drawing; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as D infundibulbon var jamesianum; Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 3 1974 photo fide; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 10 1985 photo bask cover; 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; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 12 2004 photo; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide;
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