Cadetia ceratostyloides [J.J. Sm.] Schltr. 1912

Plant and Seed Pod Photo courtesy of Patty Tyler.

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Jerry Meola and Pelican Coast Farms.

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Common Name The Ceratostylis-Like Cadetia

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found in New Guinea as a miniature, cool to warm growing, sized epiphyte with elongate, thin, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, conduplicate, basally narrowing into a petiole that blooms in the late spring and summer on a very very short, single flowered inflorescence with the flower held at leaf and pseudobulb junction..

Synonyms *Dendrobium ceratostyloides J.J. Sm. 1908

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002