Dendrobium darjeelingense Pradhan 1979 SECTION Stachyobium
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Common Name The Darjeeling Dendrobium [A province of India]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Darjeeling India and Nepal at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect stems carrying 3 to 5, deciduous, obtuse to acute, shortly bilobed, pale green leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, 1.6" [4 cm] long, 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence with acute to acuminate floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Indian Orchids Guide to Identification & Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing good; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and their Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000; The Orchids of Bhutan Cribb & Pearce 2002;
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