Dendrobium dionaeoides J.J.Sm. 1915 SECTION Grastidium

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

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Common Name or Meaning The The Dionaea-Like Dendrobium [A genus in the Droseraceae]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Papua New Guinea in lowland forests ? as a small sized, warm? to cool? growing epiphyte with elongated, slender, elliptic in cross-section stems carrying linear, grass-like, gradually narrowing to the narrow apex, strongly, unequally narrowly, obtusely bidentate leaves that blooms in the spring on a lateral from the stems, 1/4" [8 to 9 mm] long, 2 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe

Synonyms Grastidium cyanopterum (Kraenzl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002