Dendrobium mannii Ridl. 1896 SECTION Aporum
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Common Name or Meaning Mann's Dendrobium [German Orchid Enthusiast and Forester in India 1800's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam at elevations of 300 to 900 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with thin basally, expanding and flattened above stems carrying 10 to 12, distichous, equitant, fleshy, triangular, deciduous leaves that bloom in the fall on a short, lateral, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence arising on leafless [common] or leafy [less so] stems.
Synonyms Aporum mannii (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide ToThe Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007
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