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Orchid Species: Dendrobium bracteosum

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Dendrobium bracteosum is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1886.
Genus
Dendrobium (Den.)
Grex
bracteosum
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Rchb.f.
Year
1886
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ORIGIN: Found in Papua and New Guinea, the Bismarck archipelago and the Moluccas at elevations of 0 to 700 [1150] meters, and is an epiphyte of forest trees and mangroves in rainforests often along rivers and coastlines.

DESCRIPTION: A small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with tufted, erect or pendulous, terete, slender at the base, fleshy and thicker above, to 9 noded, yellowish stems covered in papery sheaths and carrying up to 6, ligulate to oblong, tapering at both ends, coriaceous, rich green leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on 1 1/2 [4 cm] long, pendulous, dense racemes that have fasciculate, ball-like clusters, arising from the nodes near the apex of older pseudobulbs, with 3 to 8, scented, waxy flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: To 1 inch [to 2.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dendrobium Den chrysolabium Rolfe [Baker]
Add+ Dendrobium Den chrysolabrum 1889 Rolfe
Add+ Dendrobium Den dixsonii 1899 F.M.Bailey
Add+ Dendrobium Den eitapense 1912 Schltr.
Add+ Dendrobium Den leucochysum 1923 Schltr.
Add+ Dendrobium Den novae-hiberniae 1894 Kraenzl.
Add+ Dendrobium Den quadrialatum 1922 J.J.Sm.
Add+ Dendrobium Den trisaccatum 1910 Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.)
Add+ Pedilonum Pedilonum bracteosum 1983 (Rchb.f.) Rauschert
Add+ Pedilonum Pedilonum eitapense 1983 (Schltr.) Rauschert
Add+ Pedilonum Pedilonum leucochysum 1983 (Schltr.) Rauschert
Add+ Pedilonum Pedilonum quadrialatum 1983 (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Den. bracteosum 'Carola' (5 awards from 2013 to 2015) Den. bracteosum 'Raychel Nishigaya' (2 awards from 2007 to 2017) Den. bracteosum h.f. album 'Ian Nishigaya' (2 awards in 2015) Den. bracteosum var. album 'Silang' (2 awards in 2012) Den. bracteosum var. album 'Super' (2 awards in 2011) Den. bracteosum 'HJ' (2 awards in 2007) Den. bracteosum 'Kathy' (2 awards in 1993) Den. bracteosum 'Cathedral Oaks' (2 awards from 1978 to 1979) Den. bracteosum var. album 'Orange and Cream Parfait' (2019) Den. bracteosum 'Alfons' (2018) Den. bracteosum 'Brandorff' (2018) Den. bracteosum h.f. album 'Noelle Chung' (2018) Den. bracteosum 'Maureen Frances' (2014) Den. bracteosum 'Laurie's Pick' (2014) Den. bracteosum 'Maureen Francis' (2014) Den. bracteosum 'Frank' (2013) Den. bracteosum 'Marie Jo's Delight' (2013) Den. bracteosum 'Mattinly Morales' (2013) Den. bracteosum 'Eisenheim 1.' (2013) Den. bracteosum h.v. tanii 'Schanz' (2013)
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