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Grastidium cancroides is an orchid species identified by (T.E.Hunt) Rauschert in 1983. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium cancroides.
ORIGIN: Found in Queensland Australia at elevations below 500 meters in humid shady locations in rainforests in mountain gorges or in open forests on trees overhanging streams.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, woody, pendulous, slightly flattened, leafy in the apical half stems carrying 10 to 20, 2 ranked, shiny, oval, thin, often wavy, dark green, deciduous leaves with a brown, rough, sandpaper-like leaf bearing sheath that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an extremely short, 2 flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes opposite the leaves anywhere along the stem and carrying fragrant flowers that face each other and only last a few hours to a day.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 to 1.6 inches [3 to 4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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