Si Raja Tanduk dari Papua

That designation for the orchid Dendrobium has a latin name sutiknoi PO'bryne. This orchid has been described and published for the first time in May 2005 in the Journal fur den Orchideenfreund. Sutikno name itself is taken from the name of an orchid hobiis and traders in Tretes, Prigen, Pasuruan, East Java, which was then described for the first time by Mr. Peter O'bryne in Singapore. History, the orchid is found accidentally by him between the stem-stem D. lasianthera, but arrived at the differences in flowering appeared. Because the interest rates by a unique character he is confident that it is potentially a new species.

This species comes from Morotai Island and Papua (Indonesia). Far have found two color variants, namely copper orange and green colors. Figure similar to the orchid plants, orchid Spatulata other section. Stem is high enough to reach 1-1,5 meters. Leaf form of ellipse slightly rounded eggs, towards the end of the leaf size on the wane. Unique character of this orchid petal is its very long (like a petal D.stratiotes) and labellumnya edge of the narrow and curved, and almost like labellum Dendrobium tobaense. Excess Orchid Spatulata this section is its dominant nature of the very strong in the hybrid-hybrid seed. Unlike in the form of D.tobaense are labellumnya akan resesif so easy terdegradasi by hybridisasi.

Currently, the hybrid-hybrid and selfing results from D.sutiknoi has been circulating in the market anggrek in southeast Asia. However, according to information from a senior colleague hobiis from Malaysia, after so long D.sutiknoi used as a parent / parent silangan, it turns out this is less attractive as the penyilang parent because genetiknya is a very dominant, so that always the characters from the other parent , a result of this hybrid that is also too skewed toward the characteristics D.sutiknoi. But this will not be so by the fans and consumers orchid hybrid, so it does not reduce the interest of the fans in general, it remains for collecting hybrid-hybrid derivative D.sutiknoi, because it still hybridnya considered beautiful and unique. In Indonesia alone, and this orchid hybridnya not tersosialisasi widely, so it is not surprising price rebound is very high.

However, it is a wealth of invaluable genetic. So serious steps to ensure the sustainability genetisnya needs to be done immediately.