Cadetia angustifolia Blume 1849 SECTION Ptero-cadetia

Close up of Flower Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

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Common Name The Thin Leafed Cadetia

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in New Guinea in swamp, hill and rainforests at elevations of sealevel to 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, close set, subcalvate, sharply 4 winged, carrying a single, apical, erect, falcate, linear, basally rounded, obtuse and minutely unequally bilobed apically that blooms in the winter through summer on a terminal, 1/4" [5.7 mm] single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe.

Synonyms Cadetia bigibba Schltr. 1912; Cadetia crenulata Schltr. 1912; Dendrobium alexisense J.J.Sm. 1912; Dendrobium dubium J.J.Sm. 1912; Dendrobium rumphiae Rchb.f. 1861;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994 as C quinquecostata; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002