Dendrobium aphyllum (Roxb.) C.E.C.Fisch. 1928 SECTION Dendrobium

Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Inflorescence

Photo by © Joseph Dougherty

Flower and plant in situ in Thailand

Photo by © David Kuehn

To MOSTLY and

Common Name The Hooded Dendrobium [refers to the cone-shaped lip - In China Dou Chun Shi Hu ]

Flower Size 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm]

Found in Hainan China, Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Maldive Islands, Nepal, Sri Lanka, western Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi and Queensland Australia as a large sized, hot to cool growing, epiphytic and occasional lithophytic species often refered to As D pierardii or D cucullatum [and is a pink flower] that occurs at altitudes of 150 to 1800 meters in evergreen lowland forests and primary montane forests with slender, pendulous, leafy stems carrying linear-lanceolate or narrowly ovate, acuminate, deciduous leaves that blooms almost at any time of the year but the most common is in the winter and spring with a short inflorescence that arises from the nodes of older leafless canes having 1 to 3, fragrant, short-lived, fragile flowers, clustered close to the cane that are strongly scented of violets.

Mounting is a necessity to accomodate the pendant canes and a drier winter rest with no fertilizer is essential to ensure early spring blooming. Start watering and fertilizing with the onset of new growth.

Synonyms Callista aphylla Kuntze 1891; Cymbidium aphyllum (Roxb.) Sw. 1799; Dendrobium aphyllum var cucullatum [R. Br.] Sarkar 1984; Dendrobium aphyllum var. katakianum I.Barua 2001; Dendrobium cucullatum R. Brown 1822; Dendrobium madrasense A.D.Hawkes 1963; Dendrobium oxyphyllum Gagnep. 1950; Dendrobium pierardii Roxb. 1822; Dendrobium pierardii var cucullatum [R. Br.] J.D. Hook 1890; Epidendrum aphyllum (Roxb.) Poir. 1810; Pierardia bicolor (Roxb. ex Hook.) Raf. 1836

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D pierardii; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as D pierardi drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905 as D superbum; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as D pierardi; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D pierardii; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as D pierardi photo good; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing not =?; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Eudendrobium scabrilingue #26 not = D cucullatum drawing good; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927 as D pierardi photo good; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953 as D pierardii drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as D pierardii drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as D pierardii; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as D pierardii photo good; Beautiful Indian Orchids and How to grow them Ghose 1968 as D pierardii drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 as D pierardii photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #9 1975 as D pierardiiphoto fide; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 as D pierardii photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; Indian Orchids: A guide to Identification and Culture Vol II Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Asia Soon 1980 as D pierardii; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as D pierardii; Orchids of Arunachal Pradesh Hegde 1984 photo fide; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 4 1986 photo fide; Orchids of Northwest Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 as D pierardii Photo fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 as D pierardii var alba Photo good; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 photo fide; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 drawing/photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 as D oxyphyllum; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen, Mori 1997 photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Dendrobium and their Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001 photo fide; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997 as D aphyllum; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District, Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide; Orchid Flora Of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 as D aphyllum var katakinum drawing fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Cribb & Pearce 2002 photo fide; Botanica's Orchids 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 10 2003 photo/drawing not = D macrostacyum; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 1 Tanaka 2003 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 as D cuculatum photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 4 2007 as D aphyllum photo fide; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007 as D pierardii photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing hmm; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as D gamblei Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide as D aphyllum; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 as D aphyllum photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as D cucullatum; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cooted 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #4 2010 as D cucculatum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #4 2010 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as D cucullatum drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Le Petit Larousse des Orchidees Lecoufle, Barthelemy & Schmidt 2013 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Taunggyi 2014 photo fide; A Guide to the Orchids of Myanmar Kurzweil & Lwin 2014 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014; Dendrobium of Borneo J J Wood 2014; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 excluded taxa; A Guide to the Dendrobium of the Philippines Cootes & Tiong 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 photo hmm; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 as D pieradii drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #2 2019 as D pierardii drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 as D cucculatum drawing ?; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #3 2019 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 drawing fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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