Dendrobium farmeri

Dendrobium farmeri, commonly known as Farmer's dendrobium, and in Chinese as 石斛属 (shi hu shu),[2] is a species of orchid native to Asia.

Farmer's dendrobium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Dendrobieae
Subtribe: Dendrobiinae
Genus: Dendrobium
Species:
D. farmeri
Binomial name
Dendrobium farmeri
Paxton (1849)
Synonyms[1]
  • Callista farmeri (Paxton) Kuntze (1891)
  • Dendrobium densiflorum var. farmeri (Paxton) Regel
  • Dendrobium farmeri var. aureoflavum Hook.f
  • Dendrobium farmeri var. albiflorum C.Morren

It is native to the Himalayas (Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Bangladesh) and Indochina (Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, and Vietnam).[1][3][4][5]

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. "Dendrobium farmeri". Flora of China. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  3. Lucksom, S.Z. (2007). The orchids of Sikkim and North East Himalaya: 1-984. S.Z.Lucksom, India.
  4. Huda, M.K. (2007). An updated enumeration of the family Orchidaceae from Bangladesh. The Journal of the Orchid Society of India 21: 35-49.
  5. Sittisujjatham, S. (2009). Wild Orchid of Thailand 2: 1-463. Amarin.

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