Dendrobium

Dendrobium Swartz 1799


Kerajaan: Tumbuh-tumbuhan
Subkeluarga: Anggrek Epipit
Suku: Podosil?
Subsuku: Dendro-dendroan
Marga: Dendrobium Swartz 1822



Genus/Marga ini dibuat oleh Olof Swartz pada 1799.
Nama Dendrobium berasal dari bahasa Yunani "dendron" (pohon) dan "bios" (hidup); jadi itu berarti "sesuatu yang hidup di pohon", atau secara khusus berarti "epipit".
Dendrobium adalah genus terbesar kedua di dunia anggrek setelah Bulbophyllum, dengan lebih dari 1400 spesies telah ditemukan dengan cakupan persebaran di Asia dan Pasifik.
Umumnya epifit, hidup menempel pada batang pohon. Dengan tipe simpodial membuatnya mudah diperbanyak secara vegetatif, menjadikannya sebagai anggrek yang paling umum dibudidaya oleh kebanyakan orang.
Kebanyakan tanaman dari genus ini memiliki batang seperti tongkat dan biasanya memiliki gugusan bunga yang semarak.

Daftar spesies yang ditemukan di Borneo:
Dendrobium cumulatum
Dendrobium hallieri
Dendrobium hepaticum
Dendrobium lambii
Dendrobium lamelatum
Dendrobium lampongense
Dendrobium moquetteanum
Dendrobium lowii
Dendrobium microglaphys
Dendrobium ovipostoriferum / D. takahasii
Dendrobium secundum
Dendrobium singkawangense
Dendrobium spathipelata

Recent Orchid Nomenclature
KEW Orchid Research Newsletter No. 40 & 43 
(M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones in Orchadian 13(11) 2002 & Telopea. 10(1) 2003

Changes to botanical names are a routine consequence of research into any plant group. In the last decade various genera of orchids have been subject to detailed research by workers on Australia. Recent research in Canberra has included molecular studies which for the first time provide important information on the ancestral relationships of genera. As a result of these studies, Orchidaceae has undergone significant taxonomic and nomenclatural changes at both generic and specific rank. The generic treatment of Mark Clements and David Jones in Canberra is used as a basis for this key. This treatment is not yet universally accepted.

Major taxonomic revision of the Dendrobium group has occurred in recent years with many species being transferred to new genera. Some of these changes have been reasonably widely accepted (eg Dockrillia) while the status of others is less certain. The various forms of Dendrobium speciosum have been transferred to the genus Thelychiton by some authorities but the earlier name is retained here until the taxonomic situation becomes more clear.
 
Berikut beberapa pecahan Genus dari SECTIONnya Dendrobium, dengan catatan penelitian hanya dilakukan pada beberapa sample spesies mewakili SECTIONnya:
SECTION Brevisaccata = Trachyrrhizum
SECTION Calcarifera = Eucycaulis
SECTION Calyptrochilus = Tropilis
SECTION Conostalix = Conostalix
SECTION Crumenata `crumenatum` = Ceraia
SECTION Crumenata `litorale` = Aporopsis
SECTION Dendrocoryne `kingianum, speciosum` = Thelychiton
SECTION Dendrocoryne `tetragonum` = Tetrabaculum
SECTION Dichopus = Dichopus

SECTION Distichophyllae = Distichorchis
SECTION Dockrillia `linguiforme` = Dockrillia
SECTION Eleutheroglossum = Eleutheroglossum
SECTION Grastidium = Grastidium
SECTION Latouria = Leioanthum
SECTION Monanthos = Monanthos
SECTION Monophyllaea = Australorchis
SECTION Phalaenanthe = Vappodes
SECTION Pedilonum `smilliae` = Coelandria
SECTION Rhizobium `lichenastrum` = Davejonesia
SECTION Rhizobium `toressae` = Stilbophyllum
SECTION Spatulata `antennatum` = Ceratobium
SECTION Spatulata `canaliculatum` = Cepobaculum
SECTION Spatulata `undulatum`= Durabaculum

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