Dendrobium rantii J.J.Sm. 1934 SECTION Calcarifera Photos courtesy of © André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen © and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Part ShadeHot Warm Fall

Common Name Rant's Dendrobium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Sulawesi montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with deciduous, elongate, slender, flexuous, branching stems which become rigid and yellow when dry and carrying many, linear, very unequally bilobed apically, deciduous leaves that blooms in the fall on a very short, axillary, 1 to 8 flowered inflorescence arising on leafless canes.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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