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Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Flower detail Photo by © Art Vogel

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Common Name or Meaning The Drooping Dendrobium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm] long

Found in Papua New Guinea at elevations around 1500 to 2100 meters in wet montane forests as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte withpendent stems carrying numerous, small, blue-green leaves all along the stem that blooms at most any time of the year on short, pendulous, densely 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the stem

Several references refer this species as a synonym of D dichaeoides and it is very similar but this one difers in the deciduous leaves and the pendent free hanging stems that do not root adventichously.

Tie this species to a mount or put in a hanging pot in well draining, moisture retaining medium give regular water and fertilizer year round with semi shade

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Journal für den Orchideenfreund Dendrobium limpidum Schuit. & de Vogel A new species of section Pedilonum from New Guinea, with a key to related species J. Orchideenfr. 10: 315 2003 photo fide; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo good; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo good; Orchid Digest Vol 77 #1 2013 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of New Guinea Schuiteman 2013 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide;

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