Dendrobium formosum

Dendrobium formosum (beautiful giant-flowered dendrobium) is a species of orchid.

Beautiful giant-flowered dendrobium
1839 illustration[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Genus:	Dendrobium
Species:	D. formosum
Binomial name
Dendrobium formosum Roxb. ex Lindl. (1830)
Synonyms[2]
Dendrobium formosum var. giganteum W.Bull Callista formosa (Roxb. ex Lindl.) Kuntze

It is native to the Himalayas (Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, India, Bangladesh), northern Indochina (Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam) and the Andaman Islands, and widely cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}