| Dendrobium brevimentum photo C. Solimbergo |
| taxonomy | described by | Seidenfaden, Gunnar |
| published in | Opera Botanica 83 : 225 1985 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Malaxideae | |
| subtribe | Dendrobiinae | |
| genus | Dendrobium Swartz 1799 | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins | forests of Malaysia (Moluccas, only in Ternate) |
| altitude | ≈ 1500 m (4950 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Ternate (North Maluku, Indonesia) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Af, humid tropical climate of the rainforest | ||
| (no winter season, more abundant rainfall) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1500 m / 4950 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Ternate this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 02 m' to 11 h 58 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | sunny | |
| inflorescence | length | 0,5 cm (0.2"), from the upper nodes |
| nr flowers | 1 | |
| size | single flower 1 L 1 cm (0.4" L 0.4") | |
| duration | single flower, ≈ days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 15 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
