Dendrobium scabrilingue Lindley 1859 SECTION Formosae Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl.

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Common Name The Rough-Lipped Dendrobium - in Thailand Ueang sae luang

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

This small sized, cool to hot growing species from Myanamar, Laos and Thailand are found at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters with tufted, fusiform or swollen towards the apex, 10 noded stems with 4 to 6 leaf sheaths covered with black hairs and carrying persistent, ligulate or oblong-linear, obscurely bilobed apically leaves and blooms from winter till summer on a very short, raceme with minute scarious bracts that arises from the nodes near the apex of leafy canes and the lower nodes on leafless canes with 1 to 3, scented, waxy, longlasting flowers. Blooming is initiated by giving the plant a cool dry winter rest, followed by copious water and fertilizer after the new growth has appeared in the spring.

Synonyms Callista scabrilinguis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium alboviride Parish 1920; Dendrobium galactanthum Schlechter 1915; Dendrobium hedyosmum Bateman 1865

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as D galactanthum; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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