Dendrobium ochreatum Lindl.1828 SECTION Dendrobium Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

Common Name or Meaning The Stem Clasping Tube Dendrobium - Ueang ta Khap - Ueang mieng - Ueang kham khaw - Ueang kham phak prap

Flower Size 2" to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm]

Found in Burma, Thailand and Vietnam in humid, mossy mixed and coniferous forests at elevations of 1200 to 1600 meters, this orchid requires as bright light as possible and a 1 to 2 month period of as little water as possible. This small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte, terrestrial or lithophyte and has short, drooping, curved, swollen noded stems with red streaks and spots carrying 15, ovate-lanceolate, thin, deciduous leaves and blooms in the winter, spring summer and fall on many very short, simultaneous inflorescence that arise from every node of the newly formed stem and has 1 to 3, fragrant, long-lived, pubescent lipped flowers per inflorescence

Synonyms Callista ochreata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891 ; Dendrobium cambridgeanum Paxton 1839

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 1 2009 photo

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