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Orchid Species: Dendrobium scoriarum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium scoriarum is an orchid species identified by W.W.Sm. in 1921.
ORIGIN: Found in southeastern Yunnan to Guanxi provinces of China and Vietnam on tree trunks and rocks in sparse woods or at woods edge at elevations around 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, terete, many noded, slender stems carrying coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse to slightly oblique-bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a 1 to 2 flowered [3 to 5mm] long inflorescence arising on older leafless stems.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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