Dendrobium branderhorstii J.J.Sm. 1910 SECTION Grastidium 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 Branderhorst's Dendrobium [German Collector of Species late 1800's - early 1900's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in the Bismarks and New Guinea in coastal or lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 800 meters as a medium to giant sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, pendulous, slender, terete basally, widening towards the apex, slightly compressed stems enveloped completely by tubular, longer than the internodes leaf sheaths and carrying erect, sublinear, strongly unequally bilobed apically, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the winter, spring, and fall on a lateral from the stem, short, 2 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Dendrobium angraecifolium Schltr. 1905; Grastidium branderhorstii (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002