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Dendrobium lepidochilum

Dendrobium lepidochilum
Photo: Emmanbotan, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
Samoa
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dendrobium lepidochilum is a species of plant belonging to the family Orchidaceae. It is endemic to Samoa. it is found in Samoa in swampy and montane forests at elevations of 200 to 400 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, pendent to erect, leafy stems carrying coriaceous, oblong-ovate, rounded and apically unequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on very short, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Other Dendrobium plants

Slender Cane Orchid · Dendrobium aduncum · Ironbark orchid · White butterfly orchid · Buttercup orchid · Dendrobium albosanguineum · Dendrobium amabile · Dendrobium amboinense · Amethyst-colored Dendrobium · Dendrobium amplum · Dendrobium angulatum · Unscented Dendrobium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dendrobium lepidochilum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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