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Diplocaulobium mekynosepalum is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.) in 1910. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium mekynosepalum.
ORIGIN: This species is a medium large, warm to cool growing epiphyte found in New Guinea in lowland forests or in rubber plantations usually on mossy trunks or mossy branches of trees at elevations of 750 to 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This species is a medium large, warm to cool growing epiphyte found in New Guinea in lowland forests or in rubber plantations usually on mossy trunks or mossy branches of trees at elevations of 750 to 1300 meters with erect, greensish brown in youth, re-brown to red-purple when mature, fusiform to narrowly ellipsoid to ovoid, carrying a single, apical, erect to decurved, oblong to lanceolate leaf that blooms in the spring on a erect to drooping, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising from a compressed, ovate-elliptic yellow brown bract held at the leaf axil of a mature pseudobulb.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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