Cadetia funiformis (Blume) Schltr. 1912 SECTION Sarcocadetia Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Plant and Flower Photos by © Ed de Vogel and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Rope-Like Cadetia - The Creeping Moss Orchid

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in New Guinea and Queensland Australia with ovoid, shiney, light green pseudobulbs carrying a single, darker green, elliptic, equally acutely bilobed apically leaf that blooms in the fall through spring on a terminal, short, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cadetia wariana Schltr. 1912; Callista funiformis (Blume) Kuntze 1891; *Dendrobium funiforme Blume 1849; Dendrobium warianum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912; Sarcocadetia funiformis (Blume) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Sarcocadetia wariana (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermuellen 1991; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 2 2003 photo as Cadetia wriana; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Sarcocadetia wariana

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