Dendrobium suzukii is relatively recently described species. It belongs to Dendrobium section Formosae . Although it is likely that this section will be revised in near future (e.g. molecular phylogeny has shown that D. trigonopus and D. jerdonianum do not belong to this section), the section contains about 50 species (Averyanov et al. 2016). According to Averyanov et al (2016), a lot of wild collected plants entered orchid markets in Dalat city in 1999-2000. It was then described in 2002 by Yukawa. The species was supposed to be from two geographically separated regions; Lam Dong and Lai Chau provinces of Vietnam. Since it hadn't been re-discoverd in nature for a long time after the initial discovery, some people even speculated that it is an artificial hybrid produced by a nursery. However, in 2014, Dr. Nong Van Duy and Mr. Nguyen Phi Tam rediscovered it in Southern Vietnam, in a primary forest near the junction of Binh Thuan , Lam Dong and Ninh Thuan provinces
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