Dendrobium victoriae-reginae

Queen Victoria's dendrobium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Genus: Dendrobium
Species: D. victoriae-reginae
Binomial name
Dendrobium victoriae-reginae
Loher[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Dendrobium coeleste Loher
  • Dendrobium victoriae-reginae f. album Valmayor & Tiu
  • Pedilonum victoriae-reginae (Loher) Rauschert

Dendrobium victoriae-reginae (Queen Victoria's dendrobium) is a member of the family Orchidaceae endemic to the Philippines.[2]

Dendrobium victoriae-reginae is a small to medium-sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with thin, descending, clumping pseudobulbs that rarely branch and carry many, unsubdivided, pointed papery leaves, and inflorescences that are violet or purple with a darker tip and white center of 3 to 4 centimeters.[3] It is found in Montane ecoregion of the Philippines growing on moss covered trucks of Lithocarpus species at 1300 to 2700 meters in elevation.[3]

References

  1. "Plant Name Details for Dendrobium victoriae-reginae" (HTML). International Plant Names Index (IPNI). International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. 1 2 The Orchids of the Philippines, J.Cootes 2001


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