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Orchid Species: Dendrobium tokai
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium tokai is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1865.
ORIGIN: Found in Fiji and Tonga in dense and open forest at elevations of sea-level to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fleshy, cylindrical, many ridged stems carrying 2 apical, narrowly oblong, leathery, bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a 12 [30 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex of the stem and carrying the 8 to 20 flowers in the upper half.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 to 2 inches [3 to 5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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