Dendrobium braianense Gagnep. 1938 SECTION Holochrysa Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
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Common Name The Braia Dendrobium
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in China?, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with pseudobulbous, slightly clavate stems carrying variably deciduous leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a leafless or leafy stem with up to 3, lateal, arching, to 7 flowered inflorescence.
This species is separated from the very similar D capillipes by the persistent leaves at blooming, the longer, arching inflorescence and the several flowers that it carries.
Synonyms Dendrobium capillipes var. braianense (Gagnep.) Aver. 2005; Dendrobium capillipes var. elegans Rchb.f. 1880; Dendrobium ejirii T.Yukawa 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #4 1999 as D ejirii photo fide; The Dendrobiums HP Wood 2006 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Orchidaceae Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
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