Dendrobium xanthophlebium Lindl. 1857 SECTION Formosae

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Common Name The Yellow Veined Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in Myanamr and Thailand at elevations around 1350 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with smooth, quill like, green and white striped stems carrying 2, rarely more, apical, linear-lanceolate, soft-textured and deciduous leaves that blooms in the fall on a short, lateral to terminal inflorescence arising on a leafed cane with waxy, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Dendrobium marginatum Bateman ex Hook.f. 1864

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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