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Dendrobium victoriae-reginae (Queen Victoria's dendrobium) is a member of the family Orchidaceae endemic to the Philippines.[2]

Queen Victoria's dendrobium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Dendrobieae
Genus:	Dendrobium
Species:	D. victoriae-reginae
Binomial name
Dendrobium victoriae-reginae Loher[1]
Synonyms[2]
Dendrobium coeleste Loher Dendrobium victoriae-reginae f. album Valmayor & Tiu Pedilonum victoriae-reginae (Loher) Rauschert

Dendrobium victoriae-reginae is a small to medium-sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with thin, descending, clumping pseudobulbs that rarely branch and carry many, unsubdivided, pointed papery leaves, and inflorescences that are violet or purple with a darker tip and white center of 3 to 4 centimeters.[3] It is found in Montane ecoregion of the Philippines growing on moss covered trucks of Lithocarpus species at 1300 to 2700 meters in elevation.[3]

References

External links

• Media related to Dendrobium victoriae-reginae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Dendrobium victoriae-reginae at Wikispecies

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