Abstract
Dendrobium is an enormous genus with approximately 900 species distributed from Himalaya, China and Japan through Southeast Asia to Australia and the southwestern Pacific Islands. The generic name is derived from Greek dendron (tree) and bios (life) denoting the epiphytic nature of most species. Some species are also saxicolous, and Chinese herbalists who call them Shihu believe that plants of Dendrobium officinale and Dendrobium moniliforme which grow on rocks make superior herbs compared to epiphytic members and other epiphytic species. Dendrobium species from Himalaya, China and Japan have been cultivated as garden plants for millennia, but cut-flower Dendrobiums are based on hybrids of New Guinean and Australian species (sections Phalaenanthe and Spatulata) and raised in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Many sections are quite distinct, and some do not readily breed outside the section.
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Teoh, E.S. (2021). Dendrobium Sw.. In: Orchid Species from Himalaya and Southeast Asia Vol. 1 (A - E). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58872-4_41
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