Dendrobium polyanthumWall. ex Lindl.

WFO wfo-0000940221 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Dendrobium polyanthum, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. a Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-01 / obs. 201326216
Dendrobium polyanthum, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. b Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201324399
Dendrobium polyanthum, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. c Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201412052
Dendrobium polyanthum, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. d Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201324381
Dendrobium polyanthum, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. e Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201326240
Dendrobium polyanthum, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. f Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201412841
Dendrobium polyanthum, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. g Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201412821
Dendrobium polyanthum, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. h Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201412833

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Dendrobium polyanthum is native: China South-Central, Andaman Is., Assam, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralAssamEast HimalayaLaosMyanmarNepalThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Dendrobium polyanthum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
East Himalaya EHM
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Callista cretacea (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Dendrobium cretaceum Lindl.
  • Dendrobium nobile var. pallidiflorum Hook.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.