Dendrobium brassii T.M.Reeve & P.Woods 1989

Plant and Flowers Photos by Rocky Roe © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name or Meaning Brass' Dendrobium

Flower Size .9 to 1.3" [2.2 to 3.2 cm]

Found in the Papua New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphtye with generally clustered, erect to pendant, nearly ovoid, contracted in the middle stems carrying a single, acute, green suffused with purple leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a short, 2 flowered inflorescence arising at the apex of older leafless pseudobulbs and carry long-lasting flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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