Dendrobium tortile Lindley 1847 SECTION Dendrobium Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name The Twisted Dendrobium - In Thailand - Khao kiu

Flower Size 2.8 to 3.1" [7 to 8 cm]

Found in Assam India, Bangladesh, Andaman Islands, Malaysia, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam at elevations around 1220 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool, ascending to pendant growing epiphyte, terrestrial or lithophyte with club to spindle shaped, grooved and medially flattened stems with tubular leaf sheaths carrying 3 to 4, thin, deciduous, curved, leathery, sharply pointed leaves that blooms on an axillary, 1.6 to 3.1" [4 to 8 cm] long, few [2 to 3] flowered inflorescence arising from the upper leaf axils of leafless canes with longlasting, fragrant flowers occuring in the late winter and early summer. Water and fertilizer should be drastcally reduced in the winter months and resumed with the onset of new growth in the spring.

Synonyms Dendrobium dartoisianum De Wild 1906; Dendrobium haniffi Ridl. ex Burkill 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007;

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