Dendrobium aphyllum (Roxb.) C.E.C. Fisch. 1928 SECTION Dendrobium Photo Courtesy of Bill Bergstrom, LATE

Common Name The Leafless Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 to 1 1/3" [2.5 to 3.3 cm]

Major caution here, this is not the showy pink, small petaled in relation to the sepals, , super fragrant orchid that is refered to also as D pieardii. Please refer to Dendrobium cucullatum for that species.

Found from Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Maldive Islands, India, Nepal, western Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia Laos, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Queensland Australia often on orchard trees in open lowlands as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with thin pendulous stems carrying many, thin, lanceolate, deciduous leaves which blooms on the nodes of leafless stems after the leaves have dropped occuring in the late spring

Synonyms Callista aphylla Kuntze 1891; Callista stuartii [Bailey] Kuntze 1891; Cymbidium aphyllum (Roxb.) Sw. 1799; Dendrobium aphyllum var. katakianum I.Barua 2001; Dendrobium gamblei King & Pantling 1897; Dendrobium macrostachyum Lindl. 1830; Dendrobium madrasense A. Hawkes 1963; Dendrobium viridicatum Ridley 1903; Dendrobium whiteanum T. E. Hunt 1951; Epidendrum aphyllum (Roxb.) Poir. 1810; *Limodorum aphyllum Roxb. 1895;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand 2001; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007