Dendrobium epidendropsis Kraenzl.1908 SECTION Calcarifera Photo courtesy of ?

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Common Name The Epipdendrum-Like Dendrobium

Flower Size 2 1/2" includes the mentum [6.25 cm]

Found in the Philippines, Java, and Japan as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte that occurs low on tree trunks on forested slopes at 900 to 1000 meters with cane-like, slender stems carrying oblong-lanceolate, leathery leaves and blooms in the fall through early winter and again in the spring on a slender, axillary, to about 4" [10 cm] long, pendulous raceme with many flowers clustered towards the apex that arises from near the apex of the older leafless canes carrying 15, waxy, glossy, showy and sometimes fragrant flowers. Plants should be allowed to dry out but not completely between waterings through the winter months and fertilizer should be curtailed until new growth arises in the spring.

Said to be a synonym of D ionopus, I have left them separate for now

Synonyms Dendrobium batanense Ames & Quisumb. 1932

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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