Dendrobium cyrtosepalum Schltr. 1905 SECTION Grastidium Photo by Brian Hodgkins © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name or Meaning The Bent-Sepal Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in the Bismark and Solomon Islands near the coast on trees at elevations of sea level to 900 meters with arching to pendant stems carrying distichous, ovate, unequally bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that that blooms in the winter with fragrant flowers

By my determination this one is closer to D microglossum but I am only going by Schlechter's drawings of 1912 and Wickison in 1991 and await more information

Synonyms Grastidium cyrtosepalum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing close; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing closer; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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