Dendrobium porphyrochilum Lindl.

Species

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Characteristics

Stems erect, cylindric or narrowly fusiform, 1.5-4 cm, 2-4 mm in diam., fleshy, base slightly contracted, becoming narrowed toward apex above middle, with several internodes, current ones enclosed in leaf sheaths. Leaves 3 or 4, distichous, alternate, narrowly oblong, to 4.5 × 0.6-1(or more) cm, papery, base contracted and enlarged into sheaths, apex acute and unequally bilobed; leaf sheath gibbous, herbaceous. Inflorescences solitary, proteranthous, apparently terminal, nodding, much taller than leaves, to 8 cm, with several to more than 10 small flowers; floral bracts narrowly lanceolate, ca. 9 × 1 mm, ca. as long as or longer than pedicel and ovary, apex acuminate. Pedicel and ovary hairlike, ca. 8 mm. Flowers scented, not resupinate, spreading, thin, golden yellow, or sepals and petals pale green with red veins, lip deep purplish brown, margin pale green, column white tinged with purple. Dorsal sepal narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 8-9 mm, 1.8-2 mm wide at base, 3-veined, caudate-acuminate; lateral sepals narrowly lanceolate, ca. as long as dorsal sepal and slightly broader, 3-veined, base oblique, apex acuminate; mentum subglobose, small. Petals narrowly elliptic, 6.5-7 × ca. 1.8 mm, apex acute; lip subrhombic or elliptic, concave, ca. 5 × 2 mm, entire, subacute; disk with 3 ± thickened central longitudinal ridges. Column ca. 1 mm, base dilated, foot ca. 1.4 mm; anther cap subglobose, glabrous.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support epiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Dendrobium porphyrochilum world distribution map, present in China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:628316-1
WFO ID wfo-0000940238
COL ID 34NHF
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Synonyms

Callista porphyrochila Dendrobium caespitosum Dendrobium porphyrochilum