Dendrobium nobile Lindl.

Native to:

Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam

Introduced into:

Hawaii

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Ackerman, J.D. (2012). Orchids gone wild. Discovering naturalized orchids in Hawaii. Orchids; the Magazine of the American Orchid Society 81: 88-93.
• Averyanov, L.V. & al. (2016). New and rare orchids (Orchidaceae) in the flora of Cambodia and Laos. Turczaninowia 19: 5-58.
• Choudhary, R.K., Srivastava, R.C., Das, A.K. & Lee, J. (2012). Floristic diversity assessment and vegetation analysis of Upper Siang district of eastern Himalaya in North East India. Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy 42: 222-246.
• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Huda, M.K. (2007). An updated enumeration of the family Orchidaceae from Bangladesh. The Journal of the Orchid Society of India 21: 35-49.
• Lucksom, S.Z. (2007). The orchids of Sikkim and North East Himalaya: 1-984. S.Z.Lucksom, India.
• Ormerod, P., Kurzweil, H. & Watthana, S. (2021). Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar. Phytotaxa 481: 1-262.
• Raskoti, B.B. (2009). The Orchids of Nepal: 1-252. Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti and Rita Ale.
• Rokaya, M.B. & al. (2013). An annotated checklist of the orchids of Nepal. Nordic Journal of Botany 31: 511-550.
• Wood, H.P. (2006). The Dendrobiums: 1-847. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag K.G., Ruggell.
• Wu, Z. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2009). Flora of China 25: 1-570. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Kew Species Profiles

• Lavarack, B., Harris, W. & Stocker, G. (2000). Dendrobium and its relatives. Timber Press. p.150.
• Lee, Y. H., Park, J.D., Beak, N.I., Kim, S.I. & Ahn, B.Z. (1995). In vitro and in vivo antitumoral phenanthrenes from the aerial parts of Dendrobium nobile. Planta Medica 61: 178-180.
• Miyazawa M., Shimamura H., Nakamura, S.-I. & Kameoka H. (1997). Antimutagenic activity of gigantol from Dendrobium nobile. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 45: 2849–2853.
• Perry, L.M. & Metzger, J. (1980). Medicinal Plants of East and Southeast Asia: Attributed Properties and Uses. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Schelpe, S. & Stewart, J. (1990). Dendrobiums: an introduction to the species in cultivation. Orchid Sundries Ltd. p.24-25.
• Wood, H.P. (2006). The Dendrobiums  A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. p.58-65.
• Xinrong Y. (2003). Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Manual from A-Z. Springer, Berlin.
• Zhao, W., Ye, Q., Tan, X., Jiang, H., Li, X., Chen, K. & Kinghorn, A.D. (2001). Three new sesquiterpene glycosides from Dendrobium nobile with immunomodulatory activity. Journal of Natural Products 64: 1196–1200.

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Ackerman, J.D. (2012). Orchids gone wild. Discovering naturalized orchids in Hawaii. Orchids; the Magazine of the American Orchid Society 81: 88-93.
• Averyanov, L.V. & al. (2016). New and rare orchids (Orchidaceae) in the flora of Cambodia and Laos. Turczaninowia 19: 5-58.
• Huda, M.K. (2007). An updated enumeration of the family Orchidaceae from Bangladesh. The Journal of the Orchid Society of India 21: 35-49.
• Wu, Z. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2009). Flora of China 25: 1-570. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.