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Cadetia mayrii is an orchid species identified by (J.J.Sm.) P.F.Hunt in 1971. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium bulbophylloides.
ORIGIN: Found in northern Papua and New Guinea in mossy montane forests on tall trees as a mat forming, miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1000 to 2700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in northern Papua and New Guinea in mossy montane forests on tall trees as a mat forming, miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1000 to 2700 meters with .4 [1 cm] between each, oblong to cylindrical, brown to reddish brown or green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, ovate to oblong, thick, fleshy and nearly erect leaf blooming in the summer on a terminal, .2 [.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that arises on newer pseudobulbs from beneath the leaf petiole and carry a single, fleshy, large for the plant, long-lasting flower .
FLOWER SIZE: 0.38 to 0.56 inches [9 to 1.4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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