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Grastidium ostrinum is an orchid species identified by (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones in 1997. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium ostrinum.
ORIGIN: Found in New Guinea in lowland and hill forests at elevations around 200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, elongated, flexuous, elliptic in cross-section stems enveloped by tubular leaf bearing sheaths and carrying oblong to lanceolate, fleshy, midvein obtusely prominent below, convex on either side of midvein above, basally and apically obtuse and somewhat unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a lateral from the stem, short, 2 flowered inflorescence arising through a very short spathe and has short lived flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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