Dendrobium austrocaledonicum Schlecter 1906 SECTION Distichophyllum

Plant and Flowers Photos by Thee from Switzerland and her Thee Design Website

Common Name The Australia to New Caledonia Dendrobium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Vanuatu in lowland and montane rainforests at elevations of 10 to 900 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, ribbed, slightly basally swollen stems carrying distichous, oblong, articulated to the leaf sheaths below, unequally bilobed apically, light yellow green leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a lateral, solitary flowered, short inflorescence.

Comparison photos for ID Lips Spread See also D revolutum

Synonyms Dendrobium cerinum Schltr. 1906; Dendrobium critae-rubrae Guillaumin 1956; Dendrobium garayanum A.D. Hawkes & A. Heller 1957; Dendrobium inaequale Finet 1903; Dendrobium mendoncanum A.D. Hawkes 1963

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 as D uniflorum photo fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonnienne d'Orchidophilie 1995; Orchid Species Culture dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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