Dendrobium densiflorum

Dendrobium densiflorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Dendrobieae
Subtribe:	Dendrobiinae
Genus:	Dendrobium
Species:	D. densiflorum
Binomial name
Dendrobium densiflorum Lindl.
Synonyms.[1]
Epidendrum dumunsuttu Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. (1830) Dendrobium clavatum Roxb. (1832) Endeisa flava Raf. (1837) Dendrobium schroederi Dombrain (1870) Dendrobium guibertii Carrière (1876) Callista clavata (Roxb.) Kuntze (1891) Callista densiflora (Lindl.) Kuntze (1891)C Callista guibertii (Carrière) M.A. Clem. (2003)

Dendrobium densiflorum, with the common names densely flowered Dendrobium and pineapple orchid, is a species of orchid native to Asia.

Plicatol B is a phenanthrene that can be isolated from the orchid.^[2]

Distribution

This species of Dendrobium orchid is native to: ^{[1][3][4][5][6][7]}

• China in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan;
• Eastern Himalayas in Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan;
• Bangladesh
• India in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh;
• Northern Indochina in Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Plicatol B at kanaya.naist.jp/knapsack_jsp
3. Flora of China v 25 p 375, 密花石斛 mi hua shi hu, Dendrobium densiflorum Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 34. 1830.
4. Huda, M.K., Rahman, M.A. & Wil (2001). Notes on the Orchidaceae of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 8(2): 9-17.
5. Rahman, M.O. (2004). Second list of angiospermic taxa of Bangladesh not included in Hooker's 'Flora of British India' and Prain's 'Bengal Plants': series I. Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 11: 77-82.
6. Lucksom, S.Z. (2007). The orchids of Sikkim and North East Himalaya: 1-984. S.Z.Lucksom, India.
7. Raskoti, B.B. (2009). The Orchids of Nepal: 1-252. Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti and Rita Ale.

External links

• Media related to Dendrobium densiflorum at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Dendrobium densiflorum at Wikispecies