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Orchid Species: Dendrobium lobulatum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium lobulatum is an orchid species identified by Rolfe ex J.J.Sm. in J.J.Smith in 1905.
ORIGIN: Found in Sumatra, West Java, the Moluccas and Borneo in lowland forests as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of sea level to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Sumatra, West Java, the Moluccas and Borneo in lowland forests as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of sea level to 1200 meters with pendulous, flattened, branching stems that are leafy all along the stem and carry many, imbricating, triangular, stiff, fleshy, pointed, dull green or purple green leaves that are smallest at the apex and largest towards the base that blooms in the spring and fall on a very short, several sequentially flowered inflorescence with only 1 or 2 flowers open at a time and arise from the nodes on or near the apex of mostly leafless pseudobulbs. In winter the plants should be left to dry out in between waterings and fertilizer should be withheld until the onset of new growth in the spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.3 inches [0.7 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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