Dendrobium okinawense Hatus. & Ida, J. 1970 SECTION Dendrobium

Plant and flowers photo by © Professor Summer and his Japanese Wild Flowers "Orchidaceae" Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Okinawa Dendrobium - In China Liu Qiu Shi Hu

Flower Size 3.2" [8 cm]

Found in Nansei-shoto [Okinawa] Japan and Taidong Taiwan in broad-leaved forests at elevations of 900 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, terete, pendulous, cylindric, many noded, yellowish green stems carrying many, towards the upper part, linear-lanceolate, rounded below, acute to obtuse apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a short, arising from the uppermost nodes of the stem, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3, imbricate, ovate-triangular floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;

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