Dendrobium signatum Rchb. f. 1884 SECTION Dendrobium

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Common Name The Marked Dendrobium - Kluay mai noi - Ueang kham kiu - Ueang tin nok - Ueang tin pet

Flower Size 3" [7.6 cm]

Found in Found in Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam at elevations of 200 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, fleshy pseudobulbs carrying leathery, lanceolate,pointed and eventually deciduous leaves and blooms in the winter through early summer on a short inflorescence that arises on a mature leafless cane towards the apex with 2 flowers that are fragrant and long-lived. This one needs a winter rest from fertilizer, partial sun and a gradual lessening of water through the winter months until early spring when no water is needed, resume fertilizer and water in early April as a new growth appears

Synonyms Dendrobium hildebrandtii Rolfe 1894; Dendrobium tortile var. hildebrandi (Rolfe) T. Tang & F.T. Wang 1951

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D hildebrandii sic; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as D hildebrandii sic; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as D hildebrandii; 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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