Dendrobium alaticaulinum P. Royen 1979 SECTION Pedilonium
Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Gerardus Staal of Peninsula Hybrids, Palo Alto, CA..
Side View of Flowers Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt.
Common Name The Winged-Stem Dendrobium
Flower Size .2" [.4 to .5 cm]
Found in Papua and New Guinea at elevations of 2750 to 3200 meters as a small, cold growing epiphyte with slender, pendant, often fractiflex, and branched stems carrying small, deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, dull dark-green, thin, spreading leaves that are spread along the length of the stem, blooming in the spring on a tassel-like, .6" [1.5 cm] long, few to several [3 to 8] flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes on leafless stems.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006
