not yet in bloom
| Dendrobium smillieae |
| taxonomy | described by | von Mueller, Ferdinand Heinrich |
| published in | Fragmenta Phytographæ Australiæ 6 : 94 1867 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Malaxideae | |
| subtribe | Dendrobiinae | |
| genus | Dendrobium Swartz 1799 | |
| chromosomes | 2n = 38 | |
| metabolism |
CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. |
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| (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 |
rainforests open spaces, tangles of branches where they accumulate debris, or on rocks |
| in Australia (from Burdekin River to Cape York Peninsula), Papua (Aitape, Bulolo, Sepik, Torres Straits) | ||
| altitude | 0 - 600 m (0 - 1980 ft) | |
| habitat |
climate informations from East Ambunti (Sepik, Papua) |
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| 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 300 m / 990 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in East Ambunti this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 16 m' to 11 h 44 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte or litophyte | |
| brightness | partial shade | |
| inflorescence | length | |
| nr flowers | ||
| size | ||
| duration | ||
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
