Dendrobium mutabile (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Calcarifera J.J. Sm

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Flower Closeup Photo by Dale Borders

Common Name The Variable Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.1 cm]

Found in India, the Ryukyu Islands, Sumatra and Java at elevations up to 700 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, crowded, thickened in the middle, erect to drooping, frequently branching, red, furrowed with age stems carrying 3 to 10, evergreen, lanceolate, tinged with violet beneath leaves blooming throughout the year and often more than once on an apical, to 7" [17.5 cm] long, often branching, usually erect, few to several [4 to 15] flowered inflorescence with variable colored flowers that last about 2 weeks.

Water and fertilizer should be reduced for 2 to 3 months in the winter and resumed only after new growth emerges in the spring.

Synonyms Anisopetala mutabilis (Blume) M.A.Clem. 2003; Callista brachypetala (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Callista mutabilis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium brachypetalum Lindl. 1859; Dendrobium firmum Steud. 1840; Dendrobium sclerophyllum Lindl. 1844; Dendrobium triadenium Lindl. 1847; *Onychium mutabile Blume 1825; Onychium rigidum Blume 1825

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as D brachypetalum; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as D firmum; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 photo plant only; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 5 1983 photo ok; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo ok; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014

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