Dendrobium lohohense Tang & F.T.Wang 1951 SECTION Holochrysa photo by © Lianfu Wang and The Orchid Website
Plant in situ China photo by © The Orchid Society of China Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Loh Hoh Dendrobium [A town in Kwangsi Province] - In China Luo Hu Shu Hu
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Chongqing, north Guangdong, southeastern Guangxi, western Guizhou, western Hubei, Hunan and southeastern Yunnan in montane valleys and on forest margins on rocks at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a large sized, cool growing lithophyte with cylindric, slightly rigid, many noded, several longitudinal rideged stems carrying many, in two rows, oblong, leathery, acute apically, contracted into the clasping sheath below leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a short to .8" [2 cm] long, laterally to axillary, 1 flowered inflorescence arising from the upper nodes of the stem and carrying waxy, slightly fleshy flowers
This species is very close to D henryi and may be conspecific with that species
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok
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