Dendrobium axillare Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium [Bl] J J Sm 1905 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Blooming From the Axil Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1000 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to simple, strict, slightly compressed densely leafy stems carrying many patent, glabrous, oblong-ligulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the late spring on a short, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are orange yellow.

Synonyms Grastidium axillare (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide;

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