Dendrobium heterocarpum Wall. ex Lindl. 1830 SECTION Dendrobium Photo by © The Thai Guide to Thailand Website Photo by © Gary Yong Gee The Yong Gee Name Website Common Name The Different Fruit Dendrobium - in Thailand - Ueang si tan - In China Jian Dao Chun Shi Hu
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]
Found from the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra, Sulawesi and the Philippines in evergreen lowland forests and primary montane forests as a small to giant sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 100 to 1800 meters with fusiform or subcylindrical, erect or pendulous, many noded, yellow with age stems with tubular basal sheaths carrying deciduous, ligulate or oblong-lanceolate, acute to obtuse leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on a lateral, short, few to several, long-lived, fragrant honeysucle to primrose scented or not, flowered inflorescence that arises from the nodes on 2 to 3 year old leafless canes.
Water and fertilizer should be reduced from the fall through the end of winter and resumed with the onset of new growth in the spring. This species is best accomodated by mounting on tree-fern or cork mounts or in a small hanging pot as it has long pendulous stems.
Synonyms Callista aurea [Lindl.] Kuntze 1891; Callista heterocarpa (Wall. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium atractodes Ridl. 1885; Dendrobium aureum Lindl. 1830; Dendrobium aureum var. pallidum Lindl. 1839; Dendrobium heterocarpum var. henshalii Hook. 1857; Dendrobium minahassae Kraenzlin 1910; Dendrobium rhombeum Lindley 1843;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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