IOSPE PHOTOS

Common Name Kuhl's Dendrobium [Dutch Botanist in Indonesia 1800's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in western Java in open mossy forests at elevations of 760 to 2500 meters as a large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with curved, pendant, densely leafy stems carrying many, lanceolate, thin, deciduous leaves that blooms on a short, few to several [3 to 12] flowered inflorescence with to 3, arising at the apex of leafless canes occuring in the spring. water and fertilizer should be reduced for 2 to 3 months in the winter and resumed only with the onset of new growth in the spring.

Said to be a synonym of Dendrobium hasseltii but there are many visual differences including the thinner, curved mentum and to fix that some authors use D thyrsodes as the proper name for this species that differs from the other in the very curved spur.

Synonyms Callista kuhlii (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Callista thyrsodes (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium thrysodes Rchb. f.1859; *Pedilonum kuhlii Blume 1825;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 2 1981 photo drawing/photo fide; ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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