Dendrobium terminale Par. & Rchb.f. 1874 SECTION Aporum
Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of © Peter O'Byrne, Jaap Vermeulen, André Schuiteman and Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Occasional
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Common Name The Terminal Dendrobium - In China Dao Ye Shi Hu
Flower Size .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm]
Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Malaysia, Penninsular Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan Province of China in evergreen lowland forests at elevations of 500 to 1600 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with short stems enveloped by leaf sheaths carrying many, triangular, succulent and deciduous leaves that are held in two ranks and blooms in the late winter, occasional spring and often summer on a short, single to 5 flowered inflorescence arising near the apice on leafed pseudodbulbs.
Synonyms Aporum terminale ( E.C.Parish & Rchb.f. ) M.A.Clem. 2003; Aporum verlaquii (Costantin) Rauschert 1983; Callista terminalis (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium verlaquii Constantin 1917
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
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