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



Common Name or Meaning The Rope-Like Cadetia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in New Guinea and Queensland Australia in lowland and lower montane forests at elevations of 100 to 900 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with ovoid, shiney, light green pseudobulbs carrying a single, darker green, elliptic, equally acutely bilobed apically leaf that blooms in the winter summer and fall 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 ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002;