Dendrobium cruttwellii T.M.Reeve 1980 SECTION Latouria
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.
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Common Name Cruttwell's Dendrobium [Anglican Minister and Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]
Flower Size 1.2 to 1.4" [3 to 4 cm]
This is a miniature to small sized, cold to warm growing epiphyte found low on the trunks of trees or on small branches of shrubs, usually less than ten feet, in Eastern Papua and New Guinea at elevations of 1500-2400 meters with shiney, erect pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 oblong-lanceolate leaves. The bloom season is in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, wiry, arching to pendant, 8" [20 cm] long, slender, few to several flowered inflorescence that arises from the leaf nodes near the apex of the psuedobulb with 2 to 12, pendulous, long-lasting flowers and requires a slightly drier winter rest is needed to set the flowering.
Synonyms Dendrobium sayeria Schlechter 1912; Sayeria paradoxa Kraenzlin 1894
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; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006
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