Dendrobium johannis Rchb.f 1865 SECTION Spatulata Photo courtesy of Dave Sorokowsky

Flower Closeup Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

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Common Name Johan's Dendrobium [John Gould Veitch, 1st orchid breeder] - The Chocolate Tea Tree Orchid

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

This small to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic species that comes from NE Australia and Papua and New Guinea in and around rainforests and swamps with scarce winter rain and high light has densely clustered, brown, unevenly swollen pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 8, on the apical 25%, lanceolate, dark green, tough, thick leaves that are sharply pointed apically. The bloom season is mainly from spring through fall and winter occuring on a 6 to 20" [15 to 50 cm] long, axillary, several to many [2 to 20] flowered, racemose inflorescence with waxy, glossy, fragrant [not so nice], longlasting flowers that arise from the nodes at the apex of leafy and leafless canes, if the plant is properly dried out through the winter months and given no fertilizer until spring growth is visible.

Synonyms Callista johannis (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Cepobaculum johannis (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002Dendrobium undulatum R. Br. var johannis[Rchb.f]F.M.Bailey 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 1 1982 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 56 No 3 1992 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Cepobaculum johannis

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