Dendrobium mohlianum
A bird-pollinated Dendrobium from the wet mountain forests of Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Samoa. It carries clusters of slender, cascading canes with two rows of narrow leaves, and bunches of four to six orange-red tubular flowers from the upper nodes of older, leafless canes. It needs cool-to-intermediate, constantly humid conditions and should never be allowed to dry out hard.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte, sometimes growing on rocks, in dense primary forest and mossy montane and cloud forest. Herbarium labels describe it as an epiphytic herb about 40 cm tall with orange to orange-red flowers.
Herbarium records span about 365–1,700 m, with most between about 700 and 1,300 m (for example 1,100–1,300 m on Guadalcanal and 1,200–1,700 m on Kolombangara). Wikipedia gives 1,500–2,300 m, which is higher than most mountains in Fiji and Vanuatu reach.
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