Dendrobium parciflorum Rchb.f. ex Lindl.1859 SECTION Strongyle Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website

Part sunHot Warm Fall

Common Name The Few Small Flowered Dendrobium - In China Shao Hua Shi Hu

Flower Size .2 to 1.3" [.5 to 3.3 cm]

Found in Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Thailand, Laos, China, Vietnam and the Philippines at elevations of 800 to 1700 meters as a miniature to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, close set, mid to apically leafy stems carrying, many, disitchous, widely spaced, sdomewhat flattened, linear, narrow, fleshy, nearly terete leaves that blooms i nthe fall on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising on leafy or leafless stems

Synonyms Aporum jenkinsii Griff. 1845; Aporum marivelense (Ames) Rauschert 1983; Callista jenkinsii (Griff.) Kuntze 1891; Callista perula (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium marivelense Ames 1908; Dendrobium perula Rchb.f. 1865; Eurycaulis perula (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 3 1991 as D hainensis photo not; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 as D hainanense photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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