Dendrobium ruginosum Ames 1933 SECTION Latouria Photo by © P.J. Cribb and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning

Flower Size 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm]

Found in the Solomon and Santa Cruz Islands at elevations of 600 to 900 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with clustered, clavate, 4 angled, yellow to purple stems carrying 2 to 4, apical, suberect, coriaceous, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the winter on an apical, 8" [20 cm] long, 4 to 8 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Sayeria ruginosa (Ames) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 photo fide; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo not = D rhodisticum; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 as D rhodisticum Photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo ok;

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