Dendrobium terminale Par. & Rchb.f. 1874 SECTION Aporum
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne, courtesy of Jaap Vermeulen, André Schuiteman and Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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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, Myanmar, 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, warm to cool 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, occasionally spring and often in the summer on a short, single to 5 flowered inflorescence arising near the apice on leafed pseudodbulbs.
D mannii, D terminale and D nathanielsii are similar and can be confused.
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; Materials For a Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Part 1 Ridley 1907; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1957; Indian Orchids: A guide to Identification and Culture Vol II Pradhan 1979 drawing fide;
Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing/photo fide; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing/photo fide;Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo not?; 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; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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