Dendrobium scabrilingue Lindley 1859 SECTION Formosae

Photo by Jay Pfahl.

Plant and flowers in situ in Thailand

Photo by © Ekkehard Schwadtke and Orchid Garden Khaolak Website

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Common Name The Rough-Lipped Dendrobium - in Thailand Ueang sae luang

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in Myanmar, Laos and Thailand at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing species from with tufted, fusiform or swollen towards the apex, 10 noded stems carrying 4 to 6 leaf sheaths covered with black hairs and carrying persistent, ligulate or oblong-linear, obscurely bilobed apically leaves and blooms from winter till summer on a very short, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with minute scarious bracts that arises from the nodes near the apex of leafy canes and the lower nodes on leafless canes carrying scented, waxy, longlasting flowers.

Blooming is initiated by giving the plant a cool dry winter rest, followed by copious water and fertilizer after the new growth has appeared in the spring.

Synonyms Callista scabrilinguis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium alboviride Parish 1920; Dendrobium galactanthum Schlechter 1915; Dendrobium hedyosmum Bateman 1865

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D hedyosmum; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen 2 Auflage Schlechter 1927; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing not; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as D galactanthum; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as D hedyosmum; The The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections drawing/photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; Opera Botanica #83 Orchid Genera in Thailand XII Dendrobium Sw. Seidenfaden 1985 drawing/photo fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombay 1992 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994 excluded taxa; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Hyan Tun [Mr Myanmar] 2014 Photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo J J Wood 2014 see Appendices Excluded taxa; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #5 2019 photo fide;

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