Taxon: Dendrobium nobile Lindl.

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Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
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Common names:

• shi hu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• vinterdendrobium   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide China FlEncy; Zander ed14; Dendrobium 57.)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; Orch Biol 7:269-271. 1997)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei [w.], Sichuan [s.], Xizang [s.e.], Yunnan; Hong Kong
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [n.e.]; Nepal
  Indo-China: Laos; Myanmar; Thailand [n.]; Vietnam

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hew, C. S. et al. 1997. Three orchids used as herbal medicines in China: an attempt to reconcile Chinese and Western pharmacology. In: Arditti, J., ed., Orchid biology: review and perspectives. 7:269–271.
• Lavarack, B. et al. 2000. Dendrobium and its relatives. 150.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Pearce, N. R. & P. J. Cribb. 2002. The orchids of Bhutan.
• Seidenfaden, G. 1992. The orchids of Indochina. Opera Bot. 114:236.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zhong Guo & Hua Jing. 1993. China floral encyclopaedia.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dendrobium nobile.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Dendrobium nobile.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Dendrobium nobile.

Check other web resources for Dendrobium nobile Lindl.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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