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Dendrobium inaequale is an orchid species identified by Finet in 1903. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium cerinum.
ORIGIN: Found in Papua and New Guinea at elevations of 40 to 900 meters on smooth barked tree trunks or on small branches near watercourses and swamps.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with club shaped pseudobulbs that have reed like bases carrying a few, stalked, papery, pointed leaves that blooms soon after a 10 degree temperature drop in the mid summer through early winter and has a short, axillary, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence that arise from the oval bract on a node near the apex of the canes and has a short lived flower, most often only for a single day.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [3 to 5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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