Diplocaulobium compressicolle [J.J.Sm.] P.F. Hunt& Summerh. 1961 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
Plant and Flower Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name or Meaning The Compressed Stem Diplocaulobium
Flower Size 3.2" [8 cm]
Found in New Guinea in rainforests at elevations of 50 to 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with crowded, arranged in a row, basally swoolen and gradually narrowing towards the apex, laterally compressed paeusobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, coriaceous,shortly bidentate apically leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a short, termial, single flowered inflorescence arising through a latereally compressed, narrowly lanceolate, acute spathe
Synonyms *Dendrobium compressicolle J.J.Sm. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo;
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