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Orchid Species: Dendrobium rarum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium rarum is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1912.
ORIGIN: Found in northern Papua and New Guinea as well as Vanuatu in moss-covered mist forests at elevations of 1200 to 1300 meters and in primary and secondary forests at elevations of 40 to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, dull purple, erect, grooved, basally swollen stems carrying many, thin-textured, linear, pointed, erect, unequally bilobed apically, bright green, purple flushed leaves that blooms in the spring on a olive to purple green becoming red, pendent, clustered, 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence that arise from the nodes on the upper half of leafless stems carrying smaller flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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