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Orchid Species: Dendrobium mindanaense
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium mindanaense is an orchid species identified by Ames in 1914.
ORIGIN: Found in the Philippines at low elevations up to 300 meters on the undersides of tree branches in mangrove swamps.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to medium sized, hot, pendant growing epiphyte with slender, jointed, upwardly curved, basally yellowish and green on the leafy apical portion canes carrying terete, curved, deep green, rigid leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a single flowered, lateral inflorescence carrying a pendant non-scented flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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