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LATE EARLY

Common Name The ? Dendrobium

Flower Size .5 to .8" [1.25 to 2 cm]

Found in Assam, easten Himalayas and Thailand at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with pendulous, tapering at both ends stems branching belowas well as at near the apex of older stems giving the effect of a rather sprawling, untidy plant carrying many, per stem, few per branch, linear-lanceolate, 2 ranked leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a short, laterally from the nodes near the apex of the stem and carrying 1 to 5 flower on each.

Synonyms Callista praecincta (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium pauciflorum King & Pantl. 1895; Dendrobium sikkimense A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller 1957

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as D pauciflorum drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;

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