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Orchid Species: Dendrobium virgineum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium virgineum is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1884.
ORIGIN: Found in Myanmar, eastern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in highland primary cloud forests at elevations below 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm to cool growing growing epiphyte with slender, cylindrical, medially swollen stems that are tapering at both ends carrying many, oblong to elliptic-ovate, deep green, flat, bilobed apically and covered in black hairs leaves that blooms on a short, racemose inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex of the stem carrying 4 to 6 flowers occcuring in the late summer and fall.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 or more inches [3.75+]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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