Dendrobium crispilinguum P.J.Cribb 1980 SECTION Spatulata Photo by Wolfgang Bandisch © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Curled Lip Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in the Papua New Guinea in montane rainforests at elevations of 1100 to 1600 meters as a large to giant sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, cane-like, basally swollen stems that turn orange when dry and carrying 8 to 10, ovate-lanceolate, leathery, suberect leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on numerous, suberect t ospreading, 18 to 20 flowered inflorescence arising through the leaf bases of the apical nodes

Synonyms Durabaculum crispilinguum (P.J.Cribb) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002

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

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