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Grastidium heteroglossum is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Rauschert in 1983. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium heteroglossum.
ORIGIN: Found in New Guinea in lowland and lower montane forests at elevations of 200 to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to just large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close-set, unbranched stems enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying many, erect, elliptic, acuminate apically leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a lateral, short, laterally compressed, 2 flowered, broadly obtuse inflorescence carrying highly fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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