Dendrobium laevifolium
A small epiphyte, about 15–20 cm tall, with pink-purple flowers. It grows on mossy trunks in wet hill and ridge forest in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The climate there is ever-wet and mild, with no real dry or cold season, so it wants steady moisture, moving humid air and intermediate temperatures all year.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe an epiphyte on mossy tree trunks and branches, including as a low epiphyte in stunted ridge-crest forest and on mossy forest trees in the Solomon Islands. That points to wet, often cloud-affected hill forest, where moss holds moisture around the roots and the canopy is broken rather than closed. Plants are small, about 15–20 cm tall, and flowers are white-pink to light purple.
Recorded at about 400–1400 m, median 800 m. At that height, air is several degrees cooler than the sea-level-influenced climate grid suggests.
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