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Orchid Species: Dendrobium carrii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium carrii is an orchid species identified by Rupp & C.T.White in 1937.
ORIGIN: This miniature species comes from Queensland Australia at elevations of 800 to 1200 meters in cloud forests in the upper exposed branches of trees in high light and high humidity and there are heavy morning dews and mists.
DESCRIPTION: This miniature species comes from Queensland Australia at elevations of 800 to 1200 meters in cloud forests in the upper exposed branches of trees in high light and high humidity and there are heavy morning dews and mists. This cool to warm growing species has 1 to 2 long straggly pseudobulbs arising from a creeping woody rhizome carrying 1 to 3, lanceolate, thin, often twisted leaves and blooms in the late winter and spring on a axillary, erect, shorter than the leaves, few to several [5 to 10] flowered, racemose inflorescence that arises from the nodes on the apex of the cane with rather closed flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: To 0.88 inches [to 2.2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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