Dendrobium victoriae-reginae
Queen Victoria's Dendrobium | |
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Dendrobium victoriae-reginae | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Class: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Orchidaceae |
Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
Tribe: | Podochilaeae |
Subtribe: | Dendrobiinae |
Genus: | Dendrobium |
Species: | D. victoriae-reginae |
Binomial name | |
Dendrobium victoriae-reginae Loher[1] | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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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
- ↑ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Plant Name Search Results" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- 1 2 The Orchids of the Philippines, J.Cootes 2001
External links
- Media related to Dendrobium victoriae-reginae at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Dendrobium victoriae-reginae at Wikispecies
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