Botanical name: Dendrobium parishii    Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Dendrobium polyphlebium

Purple-Petal Dendrobium is a small to medium sized, tree-dwelling orchid with erect or downbent, yellowish stems enveloped by white, membraneous sheaths. It is named for Charles Parish (1800's), missionary and plant collector. The plant has narrowly ovate to elliptic, blunt, stiff, leathery, blunt, deciduous leaves that are notched at tip. on a short, 2 to 3 flowered raceme with a fragrance of rhubarb or raspberry, on drooping, leafless canes. Flowers are spreading, large, about 5 cm across, thin, purplish red, disk with a deep purple blotch on either side, column white, anther cap purple. Dorsal sepals are obovate-lanceshaped, about 27 × 7 mm, lateral sepals ovate-lanceshaped. Petals are broadly elliptic, slightly shorter but much wider than sepals, base shortly clawed, margin fringed with hairs or finely toothed, tip pointed. Lip is rhombic-round, about 2 x 1.6 cm, both surfaces densely hairy, margin densely fringed with hairs, tip pointed. Purple-Petal Dendrobium is found in NE India to China and Indo-China. Flowering: February-August.

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