IOSPE PHOTOS

Another Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Purple Lipped Dendrobium - In China Dan Ting Cao Shi Hu

Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]

Found in the western Himalayas, Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam on trees in forests grazed by cattle at elevations of 1850 to 2350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with attenuate, cylindric-conical, slender yellowish pseudobulbs enveloped by imbricating, membraneous, striate sheaths and carrying 3 to 4, linear-oblong to obliquely emarginate, sessile, jointed leaves that blooms in the spring on a termianl, slender, solitary, pendant, slightly frractiflex, glabrous, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with glabrous basal sheaths and

Synonyms Callista porphyrochila (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium caespitosum King & Pantl. 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; 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;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------