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Cadetia heterochroma is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1912. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium transversilobum.
ORIGIN: Found in Papua and New Guinea and Irian Jaya as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 50 to 500 meters on mossy trunks of smaller trees in the understory of dense rainforests on ridges of hill-country.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Papua and New Guinea and Irian Jaya as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 50 to 500 meters on mossy trunks of smaller trees in the understory of dense rainforests on ridges of hill-country that has an erect stem broadening gradually to the apex which has a single, apical, deeply conduplicate slightly decrved in the upper half, oblong leaf and blooms mostly in the fall, but can be any time on an apical, short inflorescence with a single flower held at the leaf base and the occasional flowers opening in succession one at a time.
FLOWER SIZE: 2/5 inch [8 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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