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B. perrinii $35.00 listed by Linda Hartman PORT ST LUCIE, USA Local Only

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Orchid Species: Dendrocoryne speciosum

Kew currently accepted name is Dendrobium speciosum

Dendrocoryne speciosum is an orchid species identified by (Sm.) Brieger in F.R.R.Schlechter in 1981. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium speciosum.
Genus
Dendrocoryne (Dendrocoryne.)
Grex
speciosum
Parents
Species
Author
(Sm.) Brieger in F.R.R.Schlechter
Year
1981
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ORIGIN: In Queensland Australia and is a species from the D. speciosum alliance, it can be found in the coastal plains and in the highlands at elevations of 20 to 1200 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A large sized, cool to warm growing terrestrial or lithophyte with stems enveloped by sheaths carrying 4 large, leathery, purplish leaves that blooms on an axillary, semi-erect to pendant, racemose, many flowered inflorescence that arise from the nodes at the apex of the cane occurring in the late winter and spring. They experience a wet season from summer through autumn and then it is considerably drier from winter till spring and they can take some direct sunlight.

FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dendrobium Den speciosum 1804 Sm.
Add+ Dendrobium Den curvicaule 1989 (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Dendrobium Den speciosum var. curvicaule 1896 F.M.Bailey
Add+ Callista Callista speciosa 1891 (Sm.) Kuntze
Add+ Dendrobium Den hillii 1861 F.Muell.
Add+ Dendrobium Den pedunculatum 1989 (Clemesha) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.
Add+ Dendrobium Den rex 1989 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Dendrobium Den tarberi 1989 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Thelychiton Tly capricornicus 2002 (Clemesha) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Thelychiton Tly curvicaulis 2002 (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Thelychiton Tly pedunculatus 2002 (Clemesha) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Thelychiton Tly rex 2002 (M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Thelychiton Tly speciosus 2002 (Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Thelychiton Tly tarberi 2002 (M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Tropilis Tpl speciosa 1982 (Sm.) Butzin
Add+ Dendrobium Den speciosum var. pendunculatum
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Best' (4 awards in 2012) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Daylight Moon' (4 awards from 1997 to 2001) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Clair de Lune' (3 awards in 2017) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Sundowner' (2 awards in 2018) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Patroclus' (2 awards in 2017) Den. speciosum var. grandiflorum 'Herrenhausen' (2 awards in 2015) Den. speciosum var. grandiflorum 'Moorland' (2 awards in 2012) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Margaret Rose' (2 awards in 2010) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'In Situ' (2019) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Max' (2018) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Lorraine' (2018) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Palmerston Mist Mark' (2017) Den. speciosum var. grandiflorum 'Jaydon' (2016) Den. speciosum var. grandiflorum 'Williams' (2016) Den. speciosum var. grandiflorum 'William' (2016) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Sylvie's Snowstorm' (2015) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Palmerston Mist Ted' (2015) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Palmerston Mist Ted 2' (2015) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Palmerston Mist Matilda' (2015) Den. speciosum var. curvicaule 'Magic Monster' (2012)
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