Dendrobium salaccense (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Grastidium [Bl.] J.J.Sm. Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Andre Schuitemann, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
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Common Name The Salakka Dendrobium {town in Sumatra Indonesia] - In China Zhu Zhi Shi Hu
Flower Size .2 to .8" [.5 to 2 cm]
Found in China, Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Java, Borneo and Sumatra in riparian forests at elevations of 500 to 1800 meters as a small to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte on trees and lithophyte on rocks in forests and open places with slender, often pendulous, shiny, woody stems carrying, many, slender, distichous grass-like leaves confined to the upper 2/3 of the cane and blooms in the spring and summer on a .8" [2 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence emerging from nodes opposite the leaves with variable flowers even within the same inflorescence.
In Malaysia the fragrant leaves of this species are cooked with rice to give it a special spicy taste and aroma and some people in west Sumatra wear dried leaves in their hair as a perfume.
Synonyms Callista salaccense (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium intermedium Teijsm. & Binn. 1853; Dendrobium salaccense var major J.J.Sm. 1905; *Grastidium salaccense Blume 1825
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1957; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 5 1959; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 6 1978; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo ok; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; 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 fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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