Category: Dendrobium

This mini-miniature warm to cold-growing epiphyte is found in New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Islands, and Vanuatu at elevations of 650 to 2400 meters. It grows on moss-covered trees with club-shaped or tapered stems carrying two deciduous linear leaves. Blooming in summer, it produces a very short, axillary inflorescence with one to a few… Continue reading Dendrobium laevifolium

This miniature to small hot-growing epiphyte is found in the coastal foothills of southwestern and northeastern Thailand at around 20 meters elevation. It has short stems up to 15 cm long with a few leaves. Blooming in the fall, it produces fragrant flowers on 10 to 15 cm long, axillary inflorescences emerging from the upper… Continue reading Dendrobium kratense

This cool-growing epiphyte is found in Sabah and Sarawak, Borneo, at elevations of 1,100 to 1,500 meters in lower to upper montane forests. It grows pendently, with canes carrying several linear, acute, basally clasping leaves near the apex. Blooming in spring, it produces a 6 cm long, pendent inflorescence with a few to several flowers… Continue reading Dendrobium jiewhoeii

This medium-sized epiphyte is endemic to eastern Java, thriving in cold, high mountain mist forests at 2,000 to 3,000 meters. It grows on small exposed trees with clustered pseudobulbs that often produce keikis. The leaves are arranged in two rows, with the lower ones quickly falling and the upper ones persisting. Blooming in spring, it… Continue reading Dendrobium jacobsonii

This small to medium-sized epiphyte is found in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the Molucca Islands at elevations of 400 to 1,600 meters in dry lowland forests and savanna-like woodlands. It has curved, unbranched, leafy stems with many lanceolate, overlapping leaves. Blooming from summer to winter, it produces a very short inflorescence… Continue reading Dendrobium indivisum

This large-sized, warm to cool-growing epiphyte is found in Sumatra and Java at elevations of 600 to 1,250 meters in moist, dark primary forests. It has clustered stems that droop with age and carry many lanceolate, papery, dark green leaves with reddish undersides, which are deciduous. Blooming in late spring, it produces a 3 cm… Continue reading Dendrobium hymenophyllum ‘alba’

This small-sized, cool-growing epiphyte is found in Malaysia at elevations of 1,220 to 1,680 meters. It has purplish, fractiflex stems with several linear, alternately arranged leaves that are closely to widely spaced. Blooming in spring, it produces a single-flowered inflorescence about 3 cm long, emerging from leafless stems.

This orchid is found in China, Vietnam, and Thailand, growing in montane forests at 600 to 1,700 meters as a small to medium-sized, warm to cool epiphyte or terrestrial-lithophyte. It has cylindrical, angled stems with many thin, deciduous oblong-lanceolate leaves. Blooming from late spring to early fall, it produces slender inflorescences 2 to 5 cm… Continue reading Dendrobium henryi

This small orchid is native to Sumatra, growing as a hot to cool epiphyte at elevations from sea level to 1,450 meters. It has flattened stems with fleshy, curved, obliquely triangular leaves that narrow towards the apex. Blooming from the stem apex or axils, it produces short, nodding, curved inflorescences up to 1 cm long,… Continue reading Dendrobium hagerupii

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