Dendrobium moschatum Sw. 1805 SECTION Holochrysa Photo courtesy of Marc Flandre

Flower Closeup Photo by © Art Vogel

Lip and Column Detail Photo by © Gustavo Righelato

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Musky Smelling Dendrobium - Leueang nok khamin - Ueang mawn khai - Ueang champa - In China Shao Chun Shi Hu

Flower Size 3 1/2" [8.75 cm]

Found from western Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, lower India, Nepal, bhutan, Sikkim, Burma, Hainan China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in open forests on tree trunks at elevations around 300 to 900 meters as a large sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte with erect, arching or pendulous, terete, dark brown with age stems carrying the leaves in the apical half which are narrowly elliptic to oblong-ovate, leathery, acute leaves which blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, pendulous, to 8" [20 cm] long, few to several [5 to 10] flowered inflorescence with musk scented flowers that last about a week arising at or near the apex of a leafless cane. Water and fertilizer should be reduced through the winter months and resumed with the onset of new growth in the spring.

Synonyms Callista calceola (Carey ex Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Callista moschata Kuntze 1891; Cymbidium moschatum Willd. 1805; Dendrobium calceolaria Carey ex Hook. 1825; Dendrobium cupreum Herb. ex Lindl. 1835; Dendrobium moschatum Wall. ex D.Don 1825; Dendrobium moschatum var. unguipetalum I.Barua 2001; Epidendrum moschatum Buch.-Ham. 1800; Thicuania moschata (Sw.) Raf. 1836

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D calceolaria; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as D moschatum var cupreum; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979 photo; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok/photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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