Scored A Dendrobium chrysopterum!

[Subrosa]

I was cruising Ebay and saw Clown Alley offering a chrysopterum in bloom! I've been looking at getting some PNG Dendrobiums and this one was near the top of my wish list. I should be posting pics in a few days.

[JKeys]

I feel like this is a newbie question, but is this orchid just very similar to den. obtusisepalum? I remember reading on an online vendor's site somewhere (I can't remember who -- maybe piping rock or orchids limited) about a them having the 'real' obtusisepalum. Was a hybrid between that and this species what they were talking about as the 'not real,' or something along those lines?

[Subrosa]

From what I've read obtusipetalum is a larger growing species than chrysopterum.

[JKeys]

Ok, thank you. Can't wait to see blooms.

[Bloomin_Aussie]

There's some confusion in my mind on those two species too. All the pics of flowers look identical. I even came across a reference listing obtusipetalum (aka obtusisepalum) as a synonym of chrysopterum... haven't managed to find a detailed description that would help differentiate between the two.

[Subrosa]

To complicate things further the IOSPE considers chrysopterum to be subclausum!

[JKeys]

Oh my.

[Subrosa]

To FURTHER complicate things, I was looking at dendrobiums in preparation for a trip this weekend, and they list as available both an obtusipetalum and a hybrid of chrysopterum and an obtusipetalum x lawesii!!! But to simplify matters they also have a violaceum and a reflexipetalum, so.....

[Bloomin_Aussie]

[JKeys]

I had to read that over a few times to fully understand it haha.

Lawesii is also a very nice den that I'd like to get (at some point, most likely not soon).