Dendrobium wattii Rchb. f. 1888 SECTION Formosae
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Common Name Watt's Dendrobium [English Botanist and Orchid Collector in India Late 1800's] - In China Gao Shan Shi Hu
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in southern Yunnan province of China, northern Thailand, northwest India, Vietnam, northern Laos and Burma in dense forests on tree trunks at elevations of 1500 to 2600 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with slender, cylindrical canes carrying 4 to 8, narrowly linear, leathery leaves with the leaf sheaths having fine black hairs and blooms in the spring on a short inflorescence arising near the apex of leafless canes with 2 to 3 flowers.
Synonyms Callista wattii (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium cariniferum var wattii Hkr.f; Dendrobium evrardii Gagnep. 1930
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; 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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