Dendrobium wangliangii G.W.Hu, C.L.Long & X.H.Jin 2008 SECTION Dendrobium Photo by © Ron Parsons and Flowershots by Ron Parsons Website.
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Common Name Wang Liang's Dendrobium - In China Wang Shi Shi Hu
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in northern Yunnan province of China in deciduous mixed and evergreen forests on quercus trees at elevations near 2200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with 2 ranked, fusiform to slightly obovoid, unbranched, 3 to 6 noded stems along a creeping rhizome with 2 to 4, elliptic, acute, membraneous, and tighhtly embracing below leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising on leafless mature stems
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
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