Dendrobium albosanguineum
An epiphytic cane dendrobium from Myanmar and western Thailand. It is named for its large cream-white flowers, whose lip is marked with blood-red. It was described by Lindley and Paxton in 1851 from plants sent from around Moulmein (Mawlamyine). It comes from a strongly seasonal monsoon climate, so it is usually grown warm and wet in summer, then given a cooler, much drier winter to set flowers. Reliable wild habitat data are scarce, so the targets below are estimated from the region's climate and from how related monsoon dendrobiums are grown.
Where it grows wild
It grows as an epiphyte on trees in seasonally dry forest in the hills of lower Myanmar and the adjacent Thai border ranges. No specific field habitat notes were found in the sources we checked.
No verified elevation data were found. The historical collections from the Moulmein area point to lowland to lower hill forest, probably below about 1000 m.
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