Dendrobium cancroides T.E.Hunt 1947 SECTION Grastidium Photo By © Ken Blackburn and The Orchi Files
Drawing Drawing By © Lewis T Roberts
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Common Name The Crayfish-Like Dendrobium [refers to the flowers shape]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Queensland Australia at lower elevations in humid shady locations in rainforests in mountain gorges or in open forests on trees overhanging streams as a miniiature to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, woody, pendulous, slightly flattened, leafy in the apical half stems carrying 10 to 20, shiney, oval, thin, often wavy, dark green, deciduous leaves that have a brown leaf bearing sheath that is rough and feels like sandpaper that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an extremely short, 2 flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes opposite the leaves anywhere along the stem and carrying fragrant flowers that face each other and only last a few hours to a day.
Synonyms Grastidium cancroides (T.E.Hunt) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photos fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996;
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