Dendrobium schulleri

Dendrobium schulleri J.J.Sm., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg ser. II, xiii. 63 (1914).

Dendrobium schulleri J.J.Sm. Photo by Asopian

its native range is Maluku (Morotai).

Latinh Name: 

Dendrobium schulleri J.J.Sm.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Durabaculum schulleri (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

English Name:

Schuller's Dendrobium (Austrian Botanist early 1900's).

Description: 

With plump, sturdy, basally swollen, tapering to a point near the apex stems carrying oval to oblong, dark green, glossy, fleshy, leathery leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 5+, green with brown mottling, horizontal to arching, racemose, laxly 10 to 35 flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes towards the apex of the stem.

Distribution:

Maluku.

Ecological:

In lowlands as a giant sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall and winter.

Flower size:

6.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Warm growing epiphyte, prefers a position in light shade.

Type:

Schuller tot Peursum cult. s.n. (no loc.) (holo BO, iso L 3x).