Dendrobium revolutum Lindl. 1840 SECTION Distichophyllum TYPE for the Section Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Drawing Drawing by Seidenfaden

Fragrance Part shade Hot Warm Spring THROUGH EARLY Fall

Common Name The Rolled Back Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Laos at elevations of 300 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect canes carrying many, disitchous, linear-oblong, close set, slightly narrowing towards the base leaves that blooms in the spring through early fall on a short, 1 to rarely 2 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.

Comparison photos for ID Lips Spread See also D revolutum

Very similar or confused with D ellipsophyllum. Similar to D austrocaledonium and D uniflorum.

Synonyms Callista revoluta (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Distichorchis revoluta (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1960 drawing not = D ellipsophyllum; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections = D ellipsophyllum; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing good; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo fide; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobiums Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 under D ellipsophyllum; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2001 as D cf revolutum; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014

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