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Orchid Species: Dendrobium lawiense
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium lawiense is an orchid species identified by J.J.Sm. in 1912.
ORIGIN: Found in northern Sarawak Borneo in lower montane mossy ridge forests at elevations around 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a swollen above the base and towards the apex, erect becoming pendent, branching, keiki producing, slender, wiry stem carrying many, rigid, linear, unequally bilobed apically, densely and prominently nerved leaves that blooms in the later spring on short, alternately from the nodes towards the apex of the leafless part of the younger leafy stem, fasciculate, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with chaffy, scarious, pale brown floral bracts and carrying thin textured flowers that are short lived.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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