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Orchid Species: Dendrobium cymboglossum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium cymboglossum is an orchid species identified by J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb in J.J.Wood & P.J.Cribb in 1994.
ORIGIN: Found in Borneo in lowland and montane forests at elevations of 400 to 700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, erect to spreading, slender canes that can form keikis at the nodes and having several narrowly elliptic, acute to acuminate, deciduous leaves that arise along the upper portion of the cane and blooms in the summer on a subterminal, pendant, 2 to 4.4 [5 to 11 cm] long, several [8 to 12] flowered inflorescence that arise from along the leafy or leafless stem.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.4 inches [3.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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