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Desmotrichum luxurians is an orchid species identified by (J.J.Sm.) Carr in 1932. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium luxurians.
ORIGIN: Found in Borneo, Java, Malysia and the Phillipines in riverine and hill forests at elevations of sea-level to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with an elongate rhizome giving rise to narrowly elliptic, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by leafless sheaths that becomes fibery in time and carrying a single, apical erect, broadly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the short petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an axillary, or from nodes distant from the pseudobulbs, short, single flowered inflorescence carrying short lived, sometimes fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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