Dendrobium busuangense Ames 1920 SECTION Spathulata Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Busuanga Dendrobium [an Island near Palawan the Philippines]

Flower Size 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3.2 cm]

Found in Busuang Island within the Philippines on ridgetop trees at elevations around 300 meters as a giant sized, hot growing epiphyte with yellow cane like stems carrying many, leathery, elliptic leaves that blooms in the later fall and winter on an erect, 20 to 28" [50 to 70 cm] long, laxly to 50 flowered inflorescence and carry long lasting flowers.

Synonyms Durabaculum busuangense (Ames) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 drawing good; The Antelope Dendrobiums Cribb 1985; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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