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Dendrobium anosmum
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Painted as: |
Dendrobium dayanum |
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Scrapbook: |
46 |
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Date: |
1885 |
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Distribution: |
South and South-east Asia, the Philippines, Malay archipelago
and New Guinea |
Although its species name anosmum means ‘without scent’,
Dendrobium anosmum produces flowers with what John Day
described as a smell of rhubarb. The orchid specialist, John Lindley,
named it in 1845 as Dendrobium anosmum and another botanist
H G Reichenbach later gave it the descriptive name Dendrobium
superbum. John Day himself recognised that the plant that bore
his name was ‘without doubt a variety of Dendrobium superbum’.
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