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Dendrobium marseillei is an orchid species identified by Gagnep. in 1934. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium jenkinsii.
ORIGIN: This species occurring in Hainan China, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar and Laos in open forests on tree trunks at elevations of 700 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Smaller sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, branching, fusiform to ovoid-oblong, 4 ribbed, somewhat flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single, terminal, thickened, leathery, rigid, oval to oblong, obtuse, notched leaves that blooms in the early spring on a short to 6 [to 15 cm] long, arching to pendant, simultaneously 1 to 5 flowered racemes that arise from near the apex of the leafed psudobulb and carrying short-lived, wide open flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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