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Breviflores section
Cultural Information
SPECIES:
Some of these plants are smaller growing, while others are taller, or even semipendulous.
They have many temperature ranges from which they come from cooler to warm and intermediate to hot. It's best to find which region that plants came from when purchasing.
Potting or Mounting: How you pot these, or mount these will depend on the plant and your watering habits, like any other orchid. I have grown hercoglossum and linguella in plastic Vanda basets with sphagnum moss in locations with a great deal of sunlight. Mounting seems to be ideal for this group as well, but make sure in summer months to hang the plants with your Vandaceous plants. My trantuanii is grown in a small pot with a mix of Aliflor, sponge rock and sphagnum moss.
Light: I give these plants as much possible light that I can, most get at least some direct sunlight. Direct sun is usually morning sun from sunrise until about 1 PM. Other than that, they get dappled sunlight for the rest of the day. They do well indoors in light that will do well for Cattleyas and Vandas.
Water: These types like quite a bit of water while actively growing and a drier, but not completely dry winter period. Only lessen the water, do not stop it completely.
Fertilizer: for most of the year stopping in the winter months.
Section Descriptions
Shown above Dendrobium hercoglossum.
Section Breviflores is characterized by pseudobulbs which are mostly slender but that are more swollen toward the apex. The leaves are semi-deciduous being lost in 2 to 3 years. Flowers bloom on short, 3 to 10 flowered inflorescences which are typically small, pink to yellow colored flowers with the base of the lip [the mentum] saccate and apically trilobed and usually hairy along the edges.
Commonly fund species are: aduncum, hercoglossum, linguella, and trantuanii.