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Callista dearei is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium dearei.
ORIGIN: A medium to large sized, hot growing epiphytic species from Borneo and the Philippines that is found in coastal forests at altitudes of 60 to 100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A medium to large sized, hot growing epiphytic species from Borneo and the Philippines that is found in coastal forests at altitudes of 60 to 100 meters with erect, slightly thicker above, sulcate, leafy throughout the stem and having leaf sheaths that are covered in black hairs carrying coriaceous, distichous, oblong-ligulate leaves with the uppermost persistent and has a bloom time of winter and spring with an axillary to terminal, arching, short, racemose, 6 to 18 flowered inflorescence that arises from the upper nodes on old and new canes and carries musty smelling flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 inches [7.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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