Dendrobium truncicola Schltr. 1911 SECTION GrastidiumTYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Common Name or Meaning The Trunk Loving Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in Sulawesi in open hilly areas at elevations around 700 meters as a large sized, warm growing epiphyte with clustrered, erect to spreading stems carrying long, acute leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on many, axillary, short, 2 flowered inflorescence carrying whitish, sometimes lightly suffused with rose red flowers

Synonyms Grastidium truncicola (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

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

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