Cadetia umbellata Gaudic. 1829

SECTION Cadetia Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Deep Shade Hot Winter Spring Summer Fall

Common Name The Umbeled Cadetia

Flower Size .4" [1cm]

Found in New Guinea anf the Moluccas rainforests at elevations of sea level to 400 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, slender pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, fleshy, obtusely bidentate leaf that blooms in the winter, spring, summer or fall on a terminal, solitary flowered, .2" 4 mm] long inflorescence.

Synonyms Cadetia pseudoumbellata (J.J.Sm.) Schltr. 1912; Dendrobium pseudoumbellatum J.J.Sm. 1908; Dendrobium umbellatum (Gaudich.) Rchb.f. 1861;

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