Dendrobium dickasonii
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Dendrobium dickasonii
Found in India, Myanmar and Thailand on Rhododendron bushes at elevations of 1500 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender to swollen, spindle-shaped pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 8, glossy, linear to elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late winter to the early summer on a lateral, .8 to 1.2″ [2 to 3 cm] long, 1 to rarely 3 flowered inflorescence arising from the upper nodes of an older, mature cane and carrying very large for the size of the plant, orange-scented flowers
This species is similar to D unicum and D lamyaiae but this one differs in the smaller flowers with a wider flat, veined lip and three central hairy keels
Synonyms Dendrobium arachnites Rchb.f. 1874; Dendrobium inversum Kraenzl. ex A.D.Hawkes 1963; Dendrobium seidenfadenii Senghas & Bockemühl 1978