Dendrobium victoriae-reginae
| Queen Victoria's dendrobium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Dendrobium |
| Species: | D. victoriae-reginae
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| Binomial name | |
| Dendrobium victoriae-reginae Loher[1]
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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 darker tip and white center of 3 to 4 centimeters.[3] It is found in the Montane ecoregion of the Philippines growing on moss covered trucks of Lithocarpus species at 1300 to 2700 meters in elevation.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dendrobium victoriae-reginae". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b The Orchids of the Philippines, J.Cootes 2001
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