| English Name | Loddiges's Dendrobium, Anemome Dendrobe |
|---|---|
| Status in China | Vulnerable (VU) |
Description:
Epiphytic orchids. Stems pendulous, terete, many-noded. Leaves alternate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 2-5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide. Flowers solitary, borne from upper nodes of stems, white or pale-rose-pink with golden-yellow blotch on the center of lips; sepals oblong, 1.7-2 cm long, 7-8 mm wide, each with a 5 mm long mentum; petals elliptic, 2 cm long,1.2 cm wide; lip suborbicular, 1.7-2 cm in diam., concave, fimbriate on the margin, densely papillose-pubescent on center, shortly clawed at base.
Distribution:
Hong Kong Island, Lantau Island. Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, guizhou and Yunnan. Laos, Vietnam.
Habitat and Ecology:
In lowland forests attached to rocks or tree trunks.
The species is an attractive ornamental plant as well as a medicinal plant. In Hong Kong, the localities of its occurrence are in Country Parks under protection. This species is also protected by the Forestry Regulations (Cap. 96 sub. leg.) and the Protection of Endangered Species of Animals and Plants Ordinance (Cap. 586).
References:
Rolfe, R.A., 1887: Gardener's Chronicle, ser. 3, 2: 155.
吉占和，1999：中國植物誌19：104-105. 科學出版社，北京。
陳心啟等，1999：中國野生蘭科植物圖鑒(Native Orchids of China in Colour). 177.
