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Orchid Species: Dendrobium coeloglossum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium coeloglossum is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1912.
ORIGIN: A small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte found in New Guinea at elevations of 400 to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte found in New Guinea at elevations of 400 to 800 meters on mossy trunks and branches of smooth barked trees in upper rainforests that has 4 to 6, several angled, semipendant, pale green then yellow with age, slender basally and then thicker above pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2 leaves and blooms in the winter and spring on an axillary, short, racemose, few flowered inflorescence that arises from nodes near the apex of the cane, carrying 2 to 4, short-lived flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: Less than 1 to 1 1/4
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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