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Orchid Species: Dendrobium singulare
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium singulare is an orchid species identified by Ames & C.Schweinf. in O.Ames in 1920.
ORIGIN: Found in Sarawak and Sabah Borneo in lower to upper montane mossy forests at elevations of 1200 to 2600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with clustered, suberect, shiny yellow, dark banded at nodes, somewhat zigzag, flattened and enveloped by clasping leaf sheaths and carrying many, distichous, rigid, lanceolate, abruptly tapering to a slender apex leaves that blooms in the fall on a very short, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from tufts of dry scales towards the apex of each leafless and leafy canes with the flowers held close to the stem.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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