Orchidaceae
Noble dendrobium
Dendrobium nobile
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Dendrobium
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Common names
By language (17)
- Arabic
- دندروب نبيل
- arz
- ديندروبيوم نوبيل
- Bangla
- মহা ডেনড্রোবিয়াম
- Bulgarian
- Благороден дендробиум
- Cantonese
- 石斛
- Chinese
- 石斛, 石斛一种, 石斛（金钗石斛）, 金钗石斛, 春石斛, 黄草
- Czech
- Stromobytec vznešený
- English
- Noble dendrobium
- Hindi
- डेंड्रोबियम नोबल
- Japanese
- デンドロビウム・ノビル
- lzh
- 石斛
- Malay
- Orkid Phalaenopsis berganda
- Nepali
- सुनखरी
- Persian
- ارکیده دندروبیوم
- Portuguese
- Olho de boneca
- Russian
- Дендробиум благородный
- Vietnamese
- Phi điệp kép
Synonyms
- Callista nobilis (Lindl.) Kuntze
- Dendrobium chlorostylum Gagnep.
- Dendrobium coerulescens Wall. ex Lindl.
- Dendrobium formosanum (Rchb.f.) Masam.
- Dendrobium lindleyanum Griff.
- Dendrobium nobile f. cooksonianum (Rchb.f.) O.Gruss & N.H.Tuan
- Dendrobium nobile f. nobilius (Rchb.f.) M.Hiroe
- Dendrobium nobile f. virginale (Rolfe) O.Gruss & N.H.Tuan
- Dendrobium nobile unranked virginale Rolfe
- Dendrobium nobile var. alboluteum Lindl.
- Dendrobium nobile var. alboluteum Huyen & Aver.
- Dendrobium nobile var. anomalum Lindl.
- Dendrobium nobile var. cooksonianum Rchb.f.
- Dendrobium nobile var. excellens Lindl.
- Dendrobium nobile var. formosanum Rchb.f.
- Dendrobium nobile var. luteum Lindl.
- Dendrobium nobile var. majus Lindl.
- Dendrobium nobile var. nobilius Rchb.f.
- Dendrobium nobile var. nobilus Burb.
- Dendrobium nobile var. splendidum Lindl.
- Dendrobium wallichianum B.S.Williams
Flowers
- In flower
- April to May, September (from 12 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Maja Dumat from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: dvnirae, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Tristan Jobin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: benvancitters, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Leiko Edmoundson, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: chintan sheth, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.