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Originally Posted by King_of_orchid_growing:)
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Dendrobium normanbyense is similar looking to Dendrobium atroviolaceum, and for a while, it was sold as "Dendrobium atroviolaceum (pygmy)".
The biggest, most notable difference between Dendrobium atroviolaceum and Dendrobium normanbyense is the size of the plant. Dendrobium normanbyense is the smaller of the 2.
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The hybrid
D. Aussie's Chip is
D. aberrans x
D. atroviolaceum. As I understand it, Roy Tokunaga decided to remake the cross using the pygmy form of
atroviolaceum. He duly labeled the plants as Aussie's Chip. When that form was elevated to species status as
D. normanbyense, Roy's cross became a new grex rather than a remake of older one, and he had to rename it - hence
Dendrobium Micro Chip. But there seem to be a lot of plants from that remake that were distributed before the renaming of the pygmy form and so are incorrectly named (and shown) as
Den. Aussie's Chip.
To those who grow both species, are you able to discern any difference between them other than size?
(I haven't researched the decision to create
normanbyense; for all I know, there may be excellent DNA evidence that supports it. I just tend to be suspicious of any splitting done largely on the basis of geographical separation.)
Steve
Dendrobium normanbyense
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