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Orchid Species: Dendrobium melanostictum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium melanostictum is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in K.M.Schumann & C.A.G.Lauterbach in 1905.
ORIGIN: Found in Papua New Guinea and the Santa Cruz Islands in swamps and lowland forests and seasonally dry rainforests at elevations of sea-level to 450 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, flexuous stems completely enveloped by tubular, longer than the internodes leaf sheaths and carrying many erect, lanceolate, acute, minutely unequally bidentate leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on several on the same leafy to leafless stem, lateral from the stem, perforating 2 sheaths, racemose, subcapitate, short, subsessile, minutely squamose, 7 flowered inflorescence with oblong, sub-cucullate-incurved, truncate floral bracts that blooms all year on a lateral from the stem, subsessile, 2 to 8 flowered inflorescence arising through a short, oblong, obtuse spathe.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.7 inches [1.7 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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