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Orchid Species: Dendrobium setifolium
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium setifolium is an orchid species identified by Ridl. in 1896.
ORIGIN: Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra in lower montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with clustered, basally shortly slender, swelling to almost round medially and then thinning out again towards the very elongate apex cane carrying 4 to 8, widely spaced, slender, terete, channeled leaves that blooms on a very short, single flowered inflorescence arising from the middle to the apex of the cane and have flowers that are non-resupinate, short-lived and do not open well.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.7 inches [1.8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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