Dendrobium polyanthum Lindl.

in Gen. Sp. Orch. 81 (1830).

Synonymes

Callista cretacea (Lindl.) Kuntze in Rev. Gen. 2: 654 (1891).

Dendrobium cretaceum Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 33:T. 62 (1847).

Répartition

Andaman et Nicobar, Birmanie, Chine, Inde, Laos, Népal, Thaïlande, Vietnam.

Chine : Yunnan.

Inde : Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh.

Floraison : ____MJ______. Altitude de 0 à 1600 m.

Description sommaire

Plante épiphyte. Fleurs de 0 à 22, blanches, jaunes. Labelle oblong, ovale.

Commentaires

Proche de D. primulinum.

Bibliographie

Udai C. Pradhan. Indian orchids : Guide II. Udai C. Pradhan. 1979. Page 708.

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Nantiya Vaddhanaphuti. Wild orchids of Thailand. Silkworm Books. 2005. Page 94 (sous le nom Dendrobium cretaceum). Photo.

Wu Zhengyi & Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan. Flora of China. Orchidaceae. Science Press (Beijing). 2009. Page 380.

Zhihui Xu & Hong Jiang & Deping Ye & Ende Liu. The wild orchids in Yunnan. Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation. 2010. Page 347. Photo.

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André Schuiteman, B. Ramamurthy Kailash & Uttam Babu Shrestha. A checklist of the Orchidaceae of India. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. 2022. Page 91.

Khyanjeet Gogoi. Orchids of Assam, a pictorial guide. Publication Division, Dibrugarh University. 2019. Page 265. Photo.