Dendrobium flos-wanua O'Byrne & Wood 2011 SECTION Calcarifera Photo by © Sony Wibisono

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Common Name Wanua's Dendrobium [Indonesian Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .88" [2.2 cm]

Found in Kalimantan Borneo in lowland forests at unknown elevations as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, spreading, erect to arching, unbranched, green becoming reddish brown, longitudinally sulcate in maturity, terete stems carrying decidous, elliptic, tapering to an obliquely acute, unequally bilohbed apex, slightly undulate margined, thin textured leaves that tightly encircle stem with a cylindric, dirty white, persistent sheath that blooms in the spring and fall on a pendulous, 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, 2 to 8 flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the nodes near the apex of leafless stems with triangular, acute floral bracts carrying 2 to 8, glossy, almost simultaneous flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 drawing/photo fide

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