Dendrobium camaridiorum Rchb.f. 1876 SECTION Grastidium

Plant and Flower in situ New Caledonia Photos by © Edouard Faria

Common Name The Camaridium-Like Dendrobium

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in New Caledonia in rain forests, strand forests and on rocks in shade at elevations of 50 to 900 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing, grass-like, epiphyte or lithophyte with numerous rooting branches carrying 6 to 8 per branch, grass-like, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the winter spring and summer on a very short, 2 flowered inflroescence that arise from the nodes between the leaves along the cane of a new mature growth and carrying fragile flowers that last but a day..

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societie Neo-Caledonienne d'Orchidophile 1995 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums Wood 2006 photo fide

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