Dendrobium clausum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium

Inflorescence Photo by Copyright © Rogier Van Vugt and His PBase Orchid Photo Website

Part Shade Cool Fall

Common Name The Closed Dendrobium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with slightly flattened, erect to spreading pseudobulbs carrying many spreading, elliptic leaves that blooms in the fall on a very short, 2 flowered inflorescence carrying short lived flowers.

Rogier Van Vugt puts this one within either D clausum or D obliquum and Schlechter also says they are difficult to separate, so use with caution

Synonyms Grastidium clausum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing not; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Baker's 1996 not;

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