Dendrobium peguanum Lindl. 1859 SECTION Stachyobium Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

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Common Name The Pegu Dendrobium [A town in Burma]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Myanamar and Thailand as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing lithophyte or epiphyte found on secondary shrub vegatation near streams in hot and humid areas at elevations around 300 to 400 meters with stout, tufted, ovoid to oblong-conical pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, broadly elliptic to linear-oblong, leathery, deciduous, apical leaves that blooms in the late fall after a months dry spell on a short to 3", axillary, one to several [1 to 3 rarely 7] flowered, racemose inflorescence that arise from the nodes at or near the apex of the newly leafless cane with fragrant flowers. Water should be reduced and fertilizer eliminated in the winter until new growth emerges in the spring.

Synonyms Callista pygmaea (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium fesselianum Wolff 1990; Dendrobium pygmaeum Lindley not Sm. & A. Cunningham 1828; Dendrobium wallichii A.Hawkes & A.H.Heller 1957;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D pygmaeum; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 3 1958 drawing as D pygmaeum; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007

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