Dendrobium bifalce Lindl. 1843 SECTION Latouria Photo by Copyright © W C Schraut and Orchids and More Website

Flower Closeup Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name The Two Sickles Dendrobium - The Native Bee Orchid

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, the Bismark Islands, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Queensland Australia in coastal or riverine forests at elevations of sealevel to 800 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with stout, apically thickening, 5 to 7 noded stems carrying 2 to 4, coriaceous, suberect, elliptic-oblong, obtuse leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, axillary, 10 to 16" [25 to 40 cm] long, distantly few to many flowered, terete, stout inflorescence with fleshy, triangular-ovate, apiculate floral bracts.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum oncidiochilum Kraenzl. 1894; Callista bifalcis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium breviracemosum F.M.Bailey 1899; Dendrobium chloropterum Rchb.f. & S.Moore 1878; Doritis bifalcis (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1860; Latourea oncidiochila (Kraenzl.) Kraenzl. 1894; Leioanthum bifalce (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Sayeria bifalcis (Lindl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1862; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Leioanthum bifalce

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