Dendrobium boosii
A small-flowered Philippine dendrobium of section Calcarifera, known only from the mountains of north-western Leyte at about 700 m. Its branching stems grow up to about 72 cm long and bear single pink-and-white flowers from the leafless nodes. It grows among lichens and thin moss on the undersides of branches, so it wants a mount, bright shade and humid, moving air.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte growing among lichens and thin mats of moss on the undersides of branches, and sometimes on trunks, in shaded but open places in hill forest.
Recorded at about 700 m in the mountains of north-western Leyte, where nights are a few degrees cooler than on the coast.
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