Dendrobium pulchellum Roxb. 1832 SECTION Dendrobium Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

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Common Name The Charming Dendrobium

Flower Size 2 3/4 to 5" [7 to 13 cm]

Found in Assam India, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanamr, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Yunnan China and Vietnam at elevations of 230 to 2200 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte in open deciduous forests with erect, rather slender, terete, purplish with age, to 6'6" [200 cm] long stem enveloped by purple-striped leaf sheaths and carrying persistent, linear-oblong, cordate at base, obtuse or acute leaves that blooms from late winter to spring on a drooping, .8 to 5" [2 to 30 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence which are borne laterally from nodes near the apex of leafed and leafless canes and have 5 to 15, long-lasting, fragrant flowers. In the winter this plant likes to dry out between waterings adn fertilizer should be with held until new growth appears in the spring.

Synonyms Callista pulchella (Roxb. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium dalhousieanum Wallich?; Dendrobium moschatum Griff. 1851

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007;

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