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Cooktown Orchid, Anggrek Larat (Dendrobium phalaenopsis)


Dendrobium phalaenopsis


Classification
Kingdom
: Plantae – Plantae
Subkingdom
: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Division
: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Subdivision
: Angiospermae – Seed encloses plants
Class
: Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Order
: Orchidales 
Family
: Orchidaceae 
Genus
: Dendrobium
Species
: Dendrobium phalaenopsis Fitzg

Synonym(s)
Dendrobium bigibbum

Popular Name(s)
·       Local name(s): -
·       Common name(s):  Anggrek Larat (Indonesian), Cooktown Orchid (English)

Description
The generic name Dendrobium is derived from Greek 'dendron'=tree and 'bios'=life; plants of many species of this genus perch on tree trunks and branches. The specific name phalaenopsis from the Greek 'phalaina'='moth, due to flower's resemblance to a moth (ANGB, 1985).

Indonesian people called this orchid "Anggrek Larat"(Anggrek=orchid) because it’s found for the first time in Larat Island, Tanimbar, Maluku, Indonesia (Kurniawan and Pratama, 2010, Icha, 2012). It's also known as Cooktown Orchid in Australia, refers to the northern Queensland town, Cooktown, named by Captain Cook after his ship repaired there in 1170 (ANGB, 1985). 

It can live well in hot areas with a height of 0-150 meters asl. The flowers are arranged in a bunch of bunches with a length of about 60 cm. Each bunch consists of 6-24 florets. The petals and the sepals are purple (Kurniawan and Pratama, 2010, Icha, 2012 ). The colour of the flower can also have some  varieties from white until red (Icha, 2012 ).

Flower Life Span on Plant
27 days (Icha, 2012 ).

Distribution
It’s native of Maluku, Indonesia. So it became the flora identity of Maluku Province (Kurniawan and Pratama, 2010). But it also symbol of Queensland and used in colouring many hybrids. It's native of northern Australia and New Guinea (Fulcher, 2003).  

In Indonesia, it’s distributed widely as decorative plants.

Treatment
There are a lot of tutorials about it. But honestly, what my family did was to use coconut fibrous planting medium and put it in enough light (Full sun), and the last to water it with rice washing water.

Utilization
Decorative plants

Pharmacology
-

Toxicity
-

References

Pictures

The Purple D. phalaenopsis 

The Purple D. phalaenopsis  live in coconut fibrous as its planting medium









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