Dendrobium longicornu Lindl. 1828 SECTION Formosae
Photos by © Lourens Grobler.
Common Name The Long-Horned Dendrobium [refers to the mentum] - In China Chang Ju Shi Hu
Flower Size about 1 1/2" [to 3.75 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, southern China and Vietnam in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests on mossy branches of old, dwarf, gnarled trees and primary montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 3000 meters on mossy trees, or terrestrially on sandy banks in pine forests or in mist forests on ridges as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestro-lithophyte where there is high light and the plant can dry quickly. This species has tufted, minutely sulcate, somewhat fractiflex, several noded, covered in black hairs stems and carrying 5 to 11, deciduous, linear-lanceolate, obliquely acute leaves that blooms in the fall on very short, axillary racemes that arise from near the top of leafed canes with 1 to 3, fragrant, waxy, longlasting flowers and needs a short dry winter rest of 1 or 3 months at most.
Synonyms Callista longicornis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium bulleyi Rolfe 1913; Dendrobium flexuosum Griff. 1851; Dendrobium fredianum hort.; Dendrobium hirsutum Griff. 1851; Froscula hispida Raf. 1838
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