Dendrobium victoriae-reginae explained

Dendrobium victoriae-reginae (Queen Victoria's dendrobium) is a member of the family Orchidaceae endemic to the Philippines.[1]

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.[2] It is found in Montane ecoregion of the Philippines growing on moss covered trucks of Lithocarpus species at 1300 to 2700 meters in elevation.

Notes and References

  1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=59453 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. The Orchids of the Philippines, J.Cootes 2001