Dendrobium pachyphyllum (Kuntze) Bakh. f. 1963 SECTION Bolbodium Lindley 1850
Photo by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©
Photo by Dale and Deni Borders
Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved
Common Name The Thick-Leaved Dendrobium - In Thailand Ueang Song Bai
Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]
Found in Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Philippines in very open keranga, hill, and lower montane forests as a miniature, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 300 to 2100 meters low on tree trunks in swamps, orchards, open country and along roadsides and always with bright light. It has glossy, basally wiry, swollen apically stems carrying 2, succulent, suberect to spreading, thick, fleshy, oblong, glossy, yellow green leaves with red tips and blooms on a short to .4" [to 1 cm], axillary, successive or simultaneously opening, few flowered inflorescence with short lived, sometimes fragrant flowers arising from between the leaves and occuring in the spring.
This species appreciates a treefern mount if they are watered daily with a reduction in the winter and kept in a high humidity situation. This species seems to be triggered by a cool rainfall after which in a few days the flowers appear, much the same as in D crumenatum.
Synonyms Bolbodium pumilum (Kuntze) Brieger 1981; Bolbodium pusillum (Blume) Rauschert 1983 ; *Callista pachyphylla Kuntze 1891; Callista pumila Kuntze 1891; Callista pusilla (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium borneese Finet 1903; Dendrobium carnosum Teijsm. & Binn 1853; Dendrobium perpusillum Balakarishman 1970; Dendrobium pisibulbum Guillaumin 1963; Dendrobium pumilum Roxb. 1832; Dendrobium pussilum [Bl.]Lindley 1830; Desmotrichum pumilum (Kuntze) A.D.Hawkes 1957; Desmotrichum pusillum Blume 1825; Flickingeria pumila (Kuntze) A.D.Hawkes 1965; Polystachya pumila (Kuntze) Kraenzl. 1926
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as D carnosum; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as Dendrobium pumilum drawing fide; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D pumilum; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as D pumilum; Materials For a Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Part 1 Ridley 1907 as D pumillum; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1908 as D pumilum drawing good; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D pumilum; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D pusillum; Contributions to the Knowledge of the Orchid Flora of Sumatra Schlechter 1911 as D pumilum; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953 as D carnosum drawing good; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953 as D pumilum drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as D pumilium drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as D pusillum; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as D pumilum; Die Orchideen lieferung 11 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as Bolbidium pumilum; Opera Botanica # 83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo hmm; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide to both color forms; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide to the 2nd photo; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #1 2012 photo fide; A Compendioum of Minaiture Orchid Species Vol 1 Parsons and Gerritsen 2013 photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014; A Guide to the Dendrobium of the Philippines Cootes and Tiong 2015 photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #4 2019 photo fide;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
