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Dendrobium gerlandianum Kraenzl. 1909 Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
Common Name The Erlangen Dendrobium [German Botanical Garden]
Flower Size 1 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in the Philippines on Luzon Island as a miniature, hot to warm growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with basally swollen and slender above stems carrying a few, terete leaves which blooms on a short, one to two flowered inflorescence arising from the apical leaf axils with a single flower occuring in the winter. A slight, short, winter rest from water and fertilizer is beneficial for the winter blooming