Dendrobium virgineum Rchb.f 1884 SECTION Formosae Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Virginal White Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 1/2" or more [3.75+]

Found in Myanamar, Eastern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in highland primary cloud forests at elevations below 1600 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing growing epiphyte with slender, cylindrical, medially swollen stems that are tapering at both ends carrying many, oblong to elliptic-ovate, deep green, flat leaves that are bilobed apically and covered in black hairs that blooms on a short, racemose inflorescence that arises from the nodes near the apex of the stem carrying 4 to 6 flowers occcuring in the late summer and fall. In late winter water and fertilizer should be reduced and only with the arrival of new growth should it be resumed.

Synonyms Callista virginea (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium kontumense Gagnep. 1932

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 3 2001 photo; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001;

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