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Dendrobium macrophyllum A. Richard 1834 not Lindley or Ames SECTION Latouria

Inflorescence

Java variety

Papua New Guinea variety

Photos By David Sucianto

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Common Name The Large-Leafed Dendrobium - In New Guinea- The Pastor's Orchid

Flower Size to 2" [to 5 cm]

Found in Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, the Philippines, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Santa Cruz, Vanuatu and the Caroline Islands in hot coastal primary forest jungles to cool montane forests on tree trunks halfway up the bole from sea-level to 1700 meters in elevationA widespread, medium to large sized, hot to cool growing, usually epiphytic species with ribbed, slightly flattened, slender basally and thicker in the upper 60% stems carrying 2 to 4, large, persistent leaves that are held near the apex. They bloom from spring until late summer on an erect, to 6 to 16" [15 to 40 cm] long, usually many [15 to 25] flowered raceme with heavy textured, color variable flowers and require even water and fertilizer year round. They have an axillary, apical, erect or curved inflorescence that arises from the leaf axils at the apex of the leafed canes with flowers that have a delicate sweet floral fragrance and are long-lasting.

Synonyms Callista gordonii (S. Moore) Kuntze 1891; Callista macrophylla (A. Rich.) Kuntze 1891; Callista veitchiana (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium brachythecum F Mueller & Krzl. 1894; Dendrobium ferox Hassk. 1835; Dendrobium gordoni S. Moore Ex Baker 1883; Dendrobium lucae F. Mueller 1910; Dendrobium macrophyllum var. huttonii H.J.Veitch 1873; Dendrobium macrophyllum var. subvelutinum J.J.Sm. 1911; Dendrobium macrophyllum var. ternatense (J.J.Sm.) P.O'Byrne & J.J.Wood 2010; Dendrobium macrophyllum var. veitchianum (Lindl.) Hook.f. 1867; Dendrobium musciferum Schlechter 1912; Dendrobium palawense Schlechter 1914; Dendrobium psyche Krzl. 1910; Dendrobium sarcostemma Teijsm. & Binn 1866; Dendrobium sarcostemma Teijsm. & Binn. 1830; Dendrobium ternatense J.J.Sm. 1909; Dendrobium tetrodon var. vanvuurenii J.J.Sm. 1920; Dendrobium tomohonense Krzl. 1910; Dendrobium veitchianum Lindley 1847; Latourea macrophylla ( A.Rich. ) F.G.Brieger 1981; Latourea muscifera ( Schltr. ) F.G.Brieger 1981; Latourorchis macrophylla [A.Rich.] Breiger 1981; Latourorchis muscifera ( Schltr. ) F.G.Brieger 1981; Sayeria macrophylla (A. Rich.) Rauschert 1983; Sayeria muscifera (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Sayeria palawensis (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Sayeria psyche (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as D veitchianum; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1896 as D bachythecum drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as D macrophyllum var veitchianum drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D brachythecum; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D gordonii; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D macrophyllum var stenopterum; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D psyche; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D ternatense drawing fide; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D tomohonense; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985 as Dendrobium musciferum Schlechter 1912; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 # 5 1998 as D macrophyllum var musciferum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #7 1969 photo fide; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 as D musciferum photo fide; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo ok; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 drawing/photo fide; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as D ternatense drawing/photo fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as Latourea macrophyllum; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 as Latourea muscifera; photo fide/ drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 12 1982 stamp fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 drawing fide; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as D ternatense; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 10 1987 photo fide; Simon & Schuster's Guide to Orchids Orchids 1988 photo fide; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989 drawing fide; Allertonia Vol 5 No 1 Kores 1989; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 as D gordonii Photo good; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 11 1992 photo fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo fide; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 as D musciferumphoto fide; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 9 2002 photo; Botanica's Orchids 2002 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 3 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 6 2005 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #7 2007 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #4 2010 as D brachythecum photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #4 2010 as D muscifewrum photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #4 2010 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #7 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #7 2011 as D gordonii photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as D macrophyllum var ternatense drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; A Guide to the Dendrobium of New Guinea Schuiteman 2013 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #3 2018; AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #1 2020 drawing fide

Dendrobium macrophyllum A. Richard 1834 var gordoni

Dendrobium macrophyllum var ternatense [J.J.Sm] O'Byrne & Wood 2011

Flower Size to 1" [to 2.5 cm]

Found in Sulawesi and Borneo in hill forests at elevations of 600 to 800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect to spreading, club-shaped stems carrying 2, oblong to broadly elliptic, acutely shortly bidentate, leathery, midrib sulcate above leaves that blooms on a laxly up to 8 flowered inflorescence arising from just below the apex of the stem

Synonyms Dendrobium ternatense J.J.Sm. 1909;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 drawing/photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2013 photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide

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