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Dendrobium ruppianum is an orchid species identified by A.D.Hawkes ex F.Gordon in 1964. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium jonesii.
ORIGIN: Found in Queensland Australia in mountains in the Cape York Penninsula at elevations of 150 to 1400 meters in high light of open forests or high in the trees of rainforests.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic orchid with dark, grooved and swollen basally stems carrying 2 to 7 ovate, apically crowded, thin leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 to 4, erect to arching, racemose inflorescence arising from the nodes towards the apex of the stem and carrying 30, spicily fragrant flowers that often do not open fully.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 to 0.8 inches [1 1/2 to 2 cm ]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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