Dendrobium apertum Schltr.1912

SECTION Calyptrochilus

Plant and Flowers Photo by Wolfgang Bandisch © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Late

Common Name or Meaning The Archipelago Dendrobium [refers to being from the Archipelago, a reference to the Bismark Archipelago where this species occurs]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in the New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations around 1400 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphtye with elongate, flexuous, glabrous stems carrying many, elliptic-ligulate, aristate-apiculate, glabrous leaves that blooms in the late spring on a very short, fasciculate, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with ovate, aristate-apiculate bracts.

Synonyms Chromatotriccum apertum (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Pedilonum apertum (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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