The black-blue spurred dendrobium (Dendrobium cyanocentrum)
Description
Found in the mountains of New Guinea as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte in rainforests, forest clearings and river banks at elevations of 100 to 1600 meters with erect to semi-pendent, ovoid to cylindrical to fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, distichous, apical, slender, rough, twisted, purple beneath, conduplicate, semi-glossy, linear-ligulate, acute, acuminate, leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a terminal, short inflorescence often hidden within the leaves but arising on leafy and leaflesss canes with a single, rarely 2, star-shaped, lightly fragrant flowers.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Dendrobium
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