Dendrobium tokai Rchb.f. 1865 SECTION Spatulata Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Toka Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm]

Found in Fiji and Tonga in dense and open forest at elevations of sealevel to 800 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fleshy, cylindrical, many ridged stems carrying 2 apical, narrowly oblong, leathery, bilobed apically leaqves that blooms in the fall on a 12" [30 cm] long, dsensely several to many flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex of the stem and carrying the 8 to 20 flowers in the upper half.

Synonyms Durabaculum tokai (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Grastidium tokai (Rchb.f.) Rauschert 1983

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