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 Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
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 edit

  1. ^ a b 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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