Dendrobium macrostachyum Lindl. 1830SECTION Dendrobium Photo by L.Y.Th. Westra and National Herbarium Website,

LATE

Common Name The Large Inflorescence Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 to 1 1/3" [2.5 to 3.3 cm]

MAJOR CAUTION here, this is not the showy pink, small petaled in relation to the sepals, , super fragrant orchid that is refered to also as D pieardii. Please refer to Dendrobium cucullatum for that species.

Found from Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Maldive Islands, India, Nepal, western Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia Laos, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Queensland Australia often on orchard trees in open lowlands as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with thin pendulous stems carrying many, thin, lanceolate, deciduous leaves which blooms on the nodes of leafless stems after the leaves have dropped occuring in the late spring

Synonyms Callista macrostachya (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium gamblei King & Pantling 1897;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as D gamblei drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1957; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985 as D macrostachyum; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 as D cucullatum drawing not; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand 2001; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 10 2003 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok;

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