Dendrobium cambridgeanum Paxton

, Paxton's Mag. Bot. 6(72): 265 (1840). BHL
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:627017-1
Publication
Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants. London
Collation
6(72): 265
Date of Publication
Jan 1840
Family as entered in IPNI
Orchidaceae

Type Information

Locality
Khasia Hills [The specimen from which our drawing was prepared, and which blossomed at the period already mentioned, was brought to Chatsworth by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire's botanical collector, Mr. J. Gibson, in the autumn of 1837, from tho East Indies. It was found growing on the Khoseca hills, at an elevation of 4000 feet, and attaching itself to rocks or trees]
Distribution Of Types
India (Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)

Remarks

Eponymy: We have great pleasure in supplying a figure of this new and highly beautiful Dendrobium, which, haviug flowered at Chatsworth during a visit of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge