Dendrobium nobile Lindl.

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 111-112

Dendrobium nobile Lindl. , Gen . Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 79, 1830

Homotypic synonym: Callista nobilis (Lindl.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen . Pl. 2: 655, 1891.

Specimens examined:— KACHIN. Putao District : 1525 m, 16 Apr 1953, Kingdon-Ward 20656 ( BM) , det. Alsterlund- Green; same loc., 1220 m, 7 May 1953, Kingdon-Ward 20791 ( BM), det. Alsterlund-Green; same loc., 2018, Armstrong et al. 3932 ( NY, photos seen), ident. uncertain; Myitkyina District : 1525 m, 16 May 1914, Kingdon-Ward 1553 ( E) ; same loc., 2130 m, 15 May 1925, Forrest 26605 ( E, K) ; same loc., 1370 m, 4 May 1929, Sue Koe 9821 ( K) ; same loc., 1525 m, 6 May 1938, Kermode 17326 ( AMES, K) . CHIN. Falam District : 1830 m, comm. 9 Oct 1923, Daun 10 ( K) ; Mindat District : 1220−1525 m, Mar 1956, Maung Gale-2 5511 ( RAF) . SHAN. Unspecified : fide Saw Lwin (2007: 249). WITHOUT LOCALITY. Apr 1876, cult. Munro s.n. [comm. Parish] ( W-R) ; cult. Low s.n. [comm. Boxall] (W- R) . Reported from Sagaing Region by Kress et al. (2003: 74), but we have not seen material from this area.

Distribution:— India, the Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina, southwestern, southern and central China and Taiwan.

Note:— The Low and Munro specimens under ‘without locality’ were mentioned by Reichenbach (1883a: 432) in his description of the Taiwanese D. nobile Lindl. var. formosanum Rchb. f.