Dendrobium spectabile (Blume) Miq. 1859 SECTION Latouria TYPE for the Section
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to EARLY 
Common Name The Grand Dendrobium
Flower Size to 3" [to 7.5 cm]
A spectacular, medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte in primary rainforests, mangrove swamps and moss forests as well as an occasional lithophyte on rocks from Papua & New Guinea and the Solomon Islands at elevations of 300 to 2000 meters although it is most often from 300 to 500 meters with semiglobose at the base, to 8 noded stems carrying to 5, towards the apex, lanceolate to ovate, coriaceous, obtuse leaves, that blooms in the winter and early spring on an axillary, 8 to 16" [20 to 40 cm] long, few to many flowered [to 20] raceme with minute, oblong bracts that arises from near the apex of leafed mature canes.
Fertilizer as well as water should be reduced through the winter months and resumed only after the onset of new growth in the spring.
Synonyms Callista spectabilis (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium spectabile f. aurea Christenson 2006; Dendrobium tigrinum Rolfe ex Hemsl. 1891; *Latourea spectabilis Blume 1849; Latouria spectabilis Blume 1850; Latourorchis spectabile [Bl.] Breiger 1981; Sayeria spectabilis (Blume) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985; 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; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; Orchids in Colour Ritterhausen 1979 photo fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as Latourea spectabilis; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 photo fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 drawing/photo fide; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 2 2001 photo; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Botanica's Orchids 2002 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 3 2004; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 1 2006 photo as D spectabile f aurea; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #10 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 8 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #1 2010 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #4 2010 photo fide; Le Petit Larousse des Orchidees Lecoufle, Barthelemy & Schmidt 2013 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #12 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 7 2017 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #3 2018 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 88 #4 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #2 2019 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #6 2019 photo fide;
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