Author: Benjamin

This medium-sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte is found in Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Philippines at elevations of 300 to 1600 meters in evergreen lowland and primary montane forests. It has erect, grooved, swollen stems often marked with red stripes and carries many bilobed, twisted, deciduous leaves in a single… Continue reading Dendrobium uniflorum

This miniature, warm-growing epiphyte is found in northwestern Vietnam at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters in dry broadleaf evergreen forests. It has flat, strongly compressed pseudobulbs with 4 to 12 internodes, enveloped by scarious sheaths, and carries 3 to 8 oblong, broadly acute leaves. Blooming in spring, it produces 1 to 4 short, 1… Continue reading Dendrobium tuahannii

This small, hot to cool growing epiphyte is found in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, and Sumatra at elevations from sea level to 1800 meters in dense lowland and lower montane forests. It has slender, elongated, occasionally branched stems that become warty with age, carrying many hooked, narrowly linear leaves. Blooming in late spring, it… Continue reading Dendrobium truncatum

This miniature, hot-growing epiphyte is found in Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia at around 100 meters in open forests. It has crowded, thick, knobby canes covered by leaf sheaths, with 4 to 9 lanceolate-ovate, deciduous leaves near the apex. Blooming in fall and early winter, it produces short, 0.8 cm inflorescences with 1 to 4 flowers… Continue reading Dendrobium trinervium

This small to medium-sized orchid grows as an epiphyte, terrestrial, or lithophyte in Assam, Bangladesh, Andaman Islands, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam at around 1220 meters. It has club to spindle-shaped, grooved stems with tubular leaf sheaths and 3 to 4 thin, curved, leathery, deciduous leaves. Blooming from late winter to early summer, it… Continue reading Dendrobium tortile

This small, warm to cool-growing orchid is found in Sumatra’s pine and montane forests at elevations of 750 to 1500 meters. It has cylindrical stems with 8 to 9 oblong-elliptic leaves that are smooth on top and hairy beneath, with black-haired leaf sheaths. Blooming in the fall, it produces a very short, successively single, several-flowered… Continue reading Dendrobium tobaense

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This small to medium-sized, hot to warm-growing epiphyte is found in Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Moluccas at elevations of 0 to 1150 meters. It has tufted, erect or pendulous, yellowish stems with papery sheaths and up to six coriaceous, green leaves. Blooming from spring through fall, it produces 4 cm long,… Continue reading Dendrobium tanii

This small to medium-sized, warm-growing epiphyte is found in Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and south-central China at 500 to 1000 meters. It has flattened, 10-inch (25 cm) clavate pseudobulbs with two ovate leaves at the apex. Blooming in late spring, it produces a short, pendulous inflorescence just below the apical leaf, bearing… Continue reading Dendrobium sulcatum

This large to giant-sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte is found in New Guinea and Morotai Island in the Moluccas at lower elevations. It has erect, clustered stems with alternate, ovate-elliptic leaves. Blooming on a lateral, erect to suberect inflorescence reaching 14 inches (35 cm) long, it produces 8 to 12 flowers.