Dendrobium cymatoleguum Schltr. 1906 SECTION Macrocladium
Photos by © Bernard Suprin/Jean-Louis Ruiz and The Endemia NC Website
Common Name The ? Dendrobium
Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]
Found in southern New Caledonia in strand forests and serpentine bland at elevations of 50 to 750 meters as a giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with bamboo-like, slender stems carrying short, pinkish green to grey blue, linear-ligulate, obtuse, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on lateral, several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Cannaeorchis cymatoleguum (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1997 publ. 1998; Dendrobium schinzianum Kraenzl. 1929; Grastidium cymatoleguum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Grastidium schinzianum (Kraenzl.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Contributions to the Flora of New Caledonia Schlechter 1906; Contributions to the Flora of New Caledonia Schlechter 1906 as D cymatolegum var major; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 as D cymatolegum var major CYdrawing fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonienne d'Orchidophilie 1995 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996;
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