Dendrobium biflorum Sw. 1799 SECTION Grastidium Photo courtesy of Arne Larsen Denmark and his Orchid Stamp Wesite

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Common Name The 2 Flowered Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in the Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Tahiti in lowland and montane forests at elevations of sea level to 950 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, reed-like, close set, hard, smooth, shiney, many internoded stems carrying many, toward the apex, distichous, linear-lanceolate, obliquely acute leaves that are articulate to the tubular sheaths below that blooms in the winter on a lateral, 1.2 to 2.8" [3 to 7 cm] long, 2 flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes opposite the leaves and has narrowly triangular bracts and carries ephemeral flowers

Synonyms Callista biflora (Sw.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whisler 1996;

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