Dendrobium densiflorum Lindl. ex Wall. 1830 SECTION Densiflorum TYPE for the Section
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Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Ida Carter
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Common Name The Densely Flowered Dendrobium - In China Mi Hua Shi Hu
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Tibet, Hainan and southern China as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte, on moss covered trunks or branches of trees at altitudes of 1100 to 1830 meters with erect, tufted, 7 to 12 noded, obscurely 4 angled, fusiform or clavate, 12" [30 cm] long stems with each node half covered by a white sheath and carrying 3 to 5, towards the apex, elliptic or ovate, persistent, acute leaves that blooms from the late winter through spring on pendant, 8" [20 cm], cylindrical, densly flowered racemes with honey scented, short-lived flowers that arise from nodes at or near the apex of the pseudobulb.
This species requires a distinct dry rest from water and fertilizer through the winter months and should be resumed with the onset of new growth in the spring.
Synonyms Callista densiflora (Lindl. ex Wall.) Kuntze 1891; Callista densiflora (Wall.) Brieger 1981; Dendrobium clavatum Wall. 1828; Dendrobium densiflorum f. parviflorum Regel 1874; Dendrobium schroederi Dombrain 1870; Endeisa flava Raf. 1837; Epidendrum dumunsuttu Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. 1830
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D densiflorum var schroederi; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D densiflorum var galliceanum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Eudendrobium clavatum drawing fide; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; AOS Bulletin Vol 15 # 6 1946 drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 9 1959 as D densiflorum var albo-luteum photo fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 No 6 1967 photo fide; Beautiful Indian Orchids and How to grow them Ghose 1968; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 3 1969 photo fide; Die Orchideen #1 1-4 tafel 1&2 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #9 1975 photo fide; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979 photo fide; Indian Orchids : A guide to Identification and Culture Vol II Pradhan 1979 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 6 1981 photo fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 as Callista densiflora photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 4 1982 photo fide; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing fide; Orchids of Arunachal Pradesh Hegde 1984 photo fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 7 1994 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 5 1997 photo fide; Wild Orchids in China Tsi, Chen and More 1997 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 2 1998 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #1 1999 photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #1 2002 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide; Botanica's Orchids 2002 photo fide; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Hainan Island Wild Orchid illustrations 2005 photo fide; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradham 2005 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 phot ook; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 as D guibertii photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #10 2007 photo fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 no 2 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #4 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #4 2010 photo fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Le Petit Larousse des Orchidees Lecoufle, Barthelemy & Schmidt 2013 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #9 2014 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Hyan Tun [Mr Myanmar] 2014 Photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroidee Pt 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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