Cadetia taylori [F. Mueller]Schlechter 1912 SECTION Cadetia

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Angle Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name Taylor's Cadetia [Australian First Collector of Species 1900's]

Flower Size Less than 3/4" [1.5 cm]

This species is from Eastern Australia and New Guinea and found at sealevel up to 1400 meters on trees and rocks in tropical rainforest, open forest and in mangrove swamps and is a hot to warm growing, miniature sized, densly tufted, epiphytic plant, with small, pencil-like, shallowly sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by a close sheathing bract and carrying 2, apical, oblong, suberect, emarginate leaves that blooms repeatedly in the spring through fall at the base of the leaf and the top of the psuedobulb with a small, short-lived, solitary flower, opening in succession over months and needs moderate shade and plenty of water while growing and a lessening after maturity. Potting or mounting on tree fern are fine as well as cold to warm temperaturer and high humidity and watering year round.

Synonyms *Bulbophyllum taylori F. Meuller 1874; Cadetia adenantha Schltr. 1912; Cadetia hispida (A. Rich.) Schltr. 1912; Callista hispida (A. Rich.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium adenanthum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912; Dendrobium guadalcanalense Guillaumin 1965; Dendrobium hispidum A Rich. 1834; Dendrobium taylori [F. Mueller]Fitz. 1884; Dendrobium uniflos F. M. Bailey 1884

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2001; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Flora's Orchids, Encyclopedia of Cultivated orchids Hawkes 1985; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel; Cribb and Laurent 1982; AN Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006