Dendrobium austrocaledonicum Schlecter 1906

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

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.

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Common Name The Australia to New Caledonia Dendrobium

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Vanuatu in rainforests at elevations of 10 to 400 meters as a small to medium szied, hto 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 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; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonnienne d'Orchidophilie 1995

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