Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech

LATE TO EARLY

Common Name Dickason's Dendrobium [Orchid Collector 1900's]

Flower Size 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm]

Found in India, Burma and Thailand on Rhododendron bushes at elevations of 1500 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender to swollen, spindle-shaped pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 8, glossy, linear to elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late winter to the early summer on a lateral, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, 1 to rarely 3 flowered inflorescence arising from the upper nodes of an older, mature cane and carrying very large, orange-scented flowers for the size of the plant

This species is similar to D unicum and D lamyaiae but this one differs in the smaller flowers with a wider flat, veined lip and three central hairy keels

Synonyms Dendrobium arachnites Rchb.f. 1874; Dendrobium seidenfadenii Senghas & Bockemühl 1978

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D aracnites; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as D arachnites; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970 photo; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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