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Orchid Species: Dendrobium longicaule
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium longicaule is an orchid species identified by J.J.Sm. in 1923.
ORIGIN: Found in New Guinea in lowland rainforest in lower seasonally dry montane forests at elevations of 100 to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Giant sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with crowded, elongated, terete stems enveloped completely by tubular, longer than the internodes, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying oblong to lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse to retuse apically leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a lateral, very short, 2 flowered inflorescence arising through a laterally compressed spathe and carries ephemeral flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 7/8 inch [2.3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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