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Orchid Species: Dendrobium kiauense
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium kiauense is an orchid species identified by Ames & C.Schweinf. in O.Ames in 1920.
ORIGIN: Found in Kalimantan and Sabah, Borneo in hill, wet keranga and lower montane forest at elevations of 300 to 1700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with shiny yellow, stout, suberect, slender base cane-like stems almost completely enveloped by distichous, imbricate leaf sheaths and carrying many distichous, imbricate, equitant, coriaceous, dark olive green, scapelliform, ensiform, pointed, falcately incurved, suberect leaves that diminish gradually towards the apex and blooms in the spring and fall on very short, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from the near the base of the leaf and held right there.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 to 0.6 inches [1 to 1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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