Dendrobium agrostophylloides Schltr. 1912 SECTION Monanthos Photo by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Agrostophyllum-Like Dendrobium

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Papua New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium to large sized, warm growing epiphyte with simple flattened growths carrying many dense, linear, erect to suberect, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence and carrying non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms Monanthos agrostophylloides (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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