Dendrobium cyrtolobum Schltr.1912 SECTION Trachyrhizum Photo by © Art Vogel

Another Angle Photo by Rocky Roe © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Bent Lip Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in the New Guinea on trees in montne forests at elevations around 800 meters as a medium to just large sized, hot growing epiphtye with elongate, flexuous, densely verrucose stems carrying many, ereect-patent, oblong, obtuse, unequally bilobed apically, glabrous leaves that blooms in the spring on a erect-patent, graceful, 3.6" [9 cm] long, 3 to 7 flowered, racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms Dendrobium appendiculoides J.J.Sm. 1913; Trachyrhizum appendiculoides (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Trachyrhizum cyrtolobum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide

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