| Dendrobium x delicatum photo C. Solimbergo | ||
| natural hybrid Dendrobium kingianum x Dendrobium tarberi |
| taxonomy | described by | (Bailey) Bailey, Frederich Manson |
| published in | The Queensland Flora 5 : 1527 1902 | |
| 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 | Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) |
| altitude | 50 - 1200 m (165 - 3960 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Goulburn (New South Wales, Australia) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Cfb, humid subtropical climate in all seasons, with hot summers | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 600 m / 1980 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Goulburn this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 14 h 18 m' to 9 h 42 m' | |
| life form | litophyte | |
| brightness | sunny | |
| inflorescence | length | 15 cm (6"), apical |
| nr flowers | 8 - 12 | |
| size | single flower 2.5 L 2.5 cm (1" L 1") - inflorescence 11 L 6 cm (4.4" L 2.4") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ 30 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
