Dendrobium farmeri Paxton 1849 SECTION Densiflorum
Photos by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Farmer's Dendrobium [English Supervisor In Calcuta Botanical Garden 1800's]
Flower Size 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Malaysia in evergreen lowland forests and primary montane forests on primary growth tall trees high up over rivercourses at elevations of 150 to 1000 meters as a pendulous, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clavate or fusiform, 4 angled above stems carrying 2 to 4, towards the apex, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate leaves and is a spring blooming orchid that has axillary, to 8" [20 cm] long, pendent, many densly flowered, cylindrical racemose inflorescence that arise from the nodes near the apex of leafless and leafed canes
This species prefers some shade and heavy watering with a short winter rest.
Synonyms Callista densiflora (Lindl. ex Wall.) Kuntze var farmeri 1891; Callista farmeri (Paxton) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium densiflorum var farmerii (Paxton) Regel 1874 ; Dendrobium farmeri var. albiflorum C.Morren 1860; Dendrobium farmeri var. aureoflavum Hook.f. 1864
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; 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 farmeri var. albiflorum; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D farmeri var. aureo-flavum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 photo as D palpebre not fide to D farmeri; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as D farmeri var oculatum; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing not; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as D farmeri v aureo-flava; Beautiful Indian Orchids and How to grow them Ghose 1968; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 as D farmeri var aureoflava photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979 photo fide; Indian Orchids: A guide to Identification and Culture Vol II Pradhan 1979 drawing/photo fide; Indian Orchids: A guide to Identification and Culture Vol II Pradhan 1979 as D farmeri var albiflorum; Orchids of Asia Soon 1980; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 6 1981 photo fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as Callista farmeri; Orchids of Arunachal Pradesh Hegde 1984 photo fide; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing/photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 as D farmeri var albaflorum Photo good; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombay 1992 photo fide; 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; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 5 1997 photo fide; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; A to Z of East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #1 2002 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Botanica's Orchids 2002 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide;Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo good; Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photos fide; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 no 1 2008 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #2 2009 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #9 2014 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Hyan Tun [Mr Myanmar] 2014 Photo fide; OrchidDigest Vol 88 #4 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #5 2019 photo fide;
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