Dendrobium imitans Schltr. 1911 SECTION Grastidium Photo by © Paul Leong and drawings by Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Imitative Dendrobium

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Sulawesi at elevations around 500 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with rigid, erect to spreading, elongate stems carrying many, erect to spreading, linear leaves that blooms in the late fall and winter on short, along the nstem, 2 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Grastidium imitans (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

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

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