Dendrobium nobile Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 79 (1830). Synonym: Callista nobilis (Lindl.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 655 (1891). Dendrobium nobile var. nobilius Rchb.f., Garden 24: 206 (1833). Dendrobium coerulescens Wall. ex Lindl., Sert. Orchid. 3: t. 18 (1838). Dendrobium lindleyanum Griff., Not. Pl. Asiat. 3: 309 (1851). Dendrobium nobile var. formosanum Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., n.s., 19: 432 (1883). Dendrobium nobile virginale Rolfe, Orchid Rev. 8: 121 (1900). Dendrobium formosanum (Rchb.f.) Masam., Trop. Hort. 3: 32 (1933). Dendrobium nobile f. nobilius (Rchb.f.) M.Hiroe, Orchid Flowers 2: 40 (1971). Dendrobium nobile var. alboluteum Huyen & Aver., Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 74: 1039 (1989).
Family: Orchidaceae Distribution: India, China, Nepal, Laos, Mayanmar, Thailand, Vietnam Current pic taken in KFBG, Hong Kong. Plant is assumed to be collected very long back in the 70s from Nepal. Pic was taken by Daisy Hu. The plants on the side is Pholidota chinensis. Regards Pankaj <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aVyZDh7D6fQ/T5Dv9P_2rDI/AAAAAAAABH8/GyrHqm-2yck/s1600/DSCN2791.JPG>
