Dendrobium fimbriatum Hooker 1823 SECTION Holochrysa
Photo by Jean Claude George
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Common Name The Fringe-Lipped Dendrobium - In Thailand - Waew mayura - Ueang kham noi - Ueang kham foi - Ueang kham ta dam - In China Liu SU Shi Hu
Flower Size 3" [to 7.5 cm]
Found in Hainan and southeastern China, western Himalayas, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Assam India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos and Vietnam in humid, mossy mixed and coniferous forests at elevations of 800-2400 meters and is a large-sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with long, erect, arching or pendulous, light-yellow green when aged, to 4' [120 cm] long stems that are thickest in the middle and have many oblong to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, deciduous leaves that flowers in March through May but can bloom at most any time on a pendant, axillary, many [6 to 15] flowered raceme that arises from the nodes near the apex of leafless and mature canes and has sweet to sour smelling flowers.
Watering should be heaviest in the summer but they need some water even during their winter rest. They have a pendant growth habit so they are best mounted on a slab of tree fern or cork.
Synonyms Callista fimbriata (Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Callista normalis (Falc.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium normale Falc. 1839; Dendrobium paxtonii Paxt. 1839
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as D normale drawing hmm; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as D fimbriatum var gibsonii; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 photo fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as D fimbriatum var oculatum; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #9 1975 photo fide; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; The Genera of Orchidaceae in Hong Kong Shiu-ying Hu 1977; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 9 1984 photo fide; Orchids of Arunachal Pradesh Hegde 1984 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing fide; Orchids of Northwest Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 as D normale drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991 as D normale; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo good; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 photo fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996 as D normale; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997 photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide to var occulatum; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 as D normale; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok/photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as D normale Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 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; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Hyan Tun [Mr Myanmar] 2014 Photo fide ; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Hyan Tun [Mr Myanmar] 2014 as D fimbriatum var album Photo fide; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #2 2019 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
Dendrobium fimbriatum Hooker var oculatum 1845
Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved
Photo by Art Vogel.
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Common Name The Fringed-Lipped Orchid With An Oval Eye
Flower Size 3 1/2" [8.75 cm]
More common than the type in cultivation, it is more robust in stature as well as having larger sour-smelling flowers which have two blackish brown splotches on the disc of the lip which appear in the spring on the older leafless pseudobulbs with 8 to 15 flowers on a pendulous, 8" [20 cm] long inflorescence .
Synonyms Callista oculata (Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium occultum Ames 1933
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; AOS Bulletin Vol 15 # 11 1946 photo fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 5 1960 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Beautiful Indian Orchids and How to grow them Ghose 1968 as D fimbriatum var oculatum drawing fide; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; Indian Orchids : A guide to Identification and Culture Vol II Pradhan 1979; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as D fimbriatum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 9 1984 photo fide; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing/photo fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombay 1992 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 2 1994 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #4 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; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001 photo fide; Botanica's Orchids 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradham 2005 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #2 2009 photo fide; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Hyan Tun [Mr Myanmar] 2014 Photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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