Dendrobium comatum

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Dendrobium comatum']

No common name has yet been provided in this gallery nor in wikidata 'Dendrobium comatum'

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Epidendroideae • Tribus: Dendrobieae • Subtribus: Dendrobiinae • Genus: Dendrobium • Species: Dendrobium comatum (Blume) Lindl. (1830)

Synonyms

Basionym Desmotrichum comatum Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 329 (1825) Homotypic synonyms Callista comata (Blume) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 654 (1891) Ephemerantha comata (Blume) P.F.Hunt & Summerh., Taxon 10: 103 (1961) Flickingeria comata (Blume) A.D.Hawkes, Orchid Weekly 2: 453 (1961) Heterotypic synonyms Dendrobium criniferum Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 30(Misc.): 41 (1844) Dendrobium zollingerianum Teijsm. & Binn., Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië 24: 313 (1862) Dendrobium fasciculatum F.M.Bailey, Garden (London, 1871-1927) 1905: 201 (1905) Dendrobium thysanochilum Schltr. in K.M.Schumann & C.A.G.Lauterbach, Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee, Nachtr.: 152 (1905) Desmotrichum criniferum (Lindl.) Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 50 II B 21: 348 (1910) Dendrobium comatum var. papuanum J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 8: 551 (1911) Dendrobium fimbriatolabellum Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formosan. 4: 38 (1914) Desmotrichum fimbriatolabellum (Hayata) Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formosan. 4: 38 (1914) Dendrobium amesianum Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 56: 468 (1921) Dendrobium theionochilum Schltr., Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 8: 121 (1922) Desmotrichum thysanochilum (Schltr.) Carr, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1934: 380 (1934) Ephemerantha amesiana (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh., Taxon 10: 102 (1961) Ephemerantha comata var. papuana (J.J.Sm.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh., Taxon 10: 103 (1961) Ephemerantha fimbriatolabella (Hayata) P.F.Hunt & Summerh., Taxon 10: 104 (1961) Ephemerantha thysanochila (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh., Taxon 10: 106 (1961) Flickingeria fimbriatolabellum (Hayata) A.D.Hawkes, Orchid Weekly 2: 454 (1961) Ephemerantha tairukounia S.S.Ying, Quart. J. Chin. Forest. 11(2): 103 (1978) Flickingeria tairukounia (S.S.Ying) T.P.Lin, Native Orchids Taiwan 3: 85 (1987) Dendrobium xantholeucum var. tairukounia (S.S.Ying) T.P.Lin, Taiwania 61: 94 (2016)

Images of the whole plant

• 
  Dendrobium comatum

Flowers

• 
  Dendrobium comatum
• 
  Dendrobium comatum
• 
  Dendrobium comatum
• 
  Dendrobium comatum

• 
  Dendrobium comatum
  Labellum
• 
  Dendrobium comatum
  Labellum
• 
  Dendrobium comatum
  Labellum

Buds

• 
  Dendrobium comatum
• 
  Dendrobium comatum
• 
  Dendrobium comatum

Botanical illustrations

• 
  Dendrobium comatum
  figure 236 in:
  Johannes Jacobus Smith:
  Die Orchideen von Java
  Figuren-Atlas - 3. Heft
  Leiden (1910)
• 
  Dendrobium comatum
  (as syn.
  Flickingeria comata)
  Lewis Roberts:
  Orchids of far north-eastern Queensland,
  (1995-2003)

Native distribution areas

Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition Asia-Temperate Eastern Asia Taiwan. Asia-Tropical Indo-China Vietnam. Malesia Borneo, Jawa, Peninsular Malaysia, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera. Papuasia Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands. Australasia Australia Queensland. Pacific Southwestern Pacific Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Vanuatu. Northwestern Pacific Caroline Islands, Marianas.

Selected Weblinks

Wikispecies has an entry on: Dendrobium comatum.

• Kew Gardens 'World Checklist' link : Dendrobium comatum