Dendrobium senile Parish ex Rchb.f 1865 SECTION Formosae
Photo by © Danny Lentz
Plant Photo by Peter Szabo Photo by Jay Pfahl Plant and flower in situ in Thailand Photo courtesy of David Kuehn Common Name The White Haired Dendrobium - in Thailand Ueang chani
Flower Size to about 2" [3 to 6 cm]
Found in Myanmar, Thailand and Laos in primary and secondary
evergreen broad-leaved and coniferous dry open
forests and woodlands, commonly on sandstone
along streams and rivers at elevations of 200 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that has suberect, reclining to creeping, hairy, succulent-like pseudobulbs and 2 to 6, ovate-lanceolate, alternate, semi-deciduous leaves that bloom in the spring and summer with fragrant [lemony], 1 to several flowers on a short inflorescence that arises from the upper nodes of the leafed and leafless canes.
This plant does better potted than mounted and needs lower light levels in the wet summer and higher light levels in the dry winter. Keep humidity high year round.
Synonyms Callista senilis (Parish & Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Callista senilis (Parish & Rchb. f.) Brieger 1981
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1868 drawing fide; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Eudendrobium senile drawing fide; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #10 1967 photo fide; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979 photo fide; Miniature Orchids Northern 1980; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as Callista senilis; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 11 1987 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo; Simon & Schuster's Guide to Orchids Orchids 1988 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 7 1992 photo fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo fide; Miniature Orchids McQueens 1992 photo fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombay 1992 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fideThe Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007 photo fide; Mille Et Une miniOrchidees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Hyan Tun [Mr Myanmar] 2014 Photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; photo fide
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