Dendrobium porphyrochilumLindl.

WFO wfo-0000940238 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 porphyrochilum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-05-19 / obs. 60999144
Dendrobium porphyrochilum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60999153
Dendrobium porphyrochilum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60999158
Dendrobium porphyrochilum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60999139
Dendrobium porphyrochilum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60999146
Dendrobium porphyrochilum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60999151
Dendrobium porphyrochilum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60999162
Dendrobium porphyrochilum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60999485

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Dendrobium porphyrochilum is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastAssamBangladeshEast HimalayaLaosMyanmarNepalThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Dendrobium porphyrochilum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
East Himalaya EHM
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS

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 2 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 porphyrochila (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Dendrobium caespitosum King & Pantl.

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.