Dendrobium strongylanthum Rchb.f. 1878 SECTION Stachyobium
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Common Name The Bulging Flower Dendrobium [refers to the inflated flower] - In China Chu Chun Shi Hu
Flower Size .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Myanamar, Laos and Thailand in montane forests on tree trunks at elevations around 1000 to 2100 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or as the photo suggests lithophyte with a few, slender, 4", pendulous, vertically ribbed, slightly fractiflex canes enveloped near the nodes by sheaths and carrying 5 leaves and blooms in the late spring through early fall on often more than one, 4" [10 cm] long, 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex of the cane and carrying all the flowers towards the apex clustered in a loose ball
Synonyms Callista strongylantha (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium ctenoglossum Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
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