Dendrobium falcatum J.J.Sm.1908 SECTION Grastidium

Another Angle Photo by Wolfgang Bandisch © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Sickle-Shaped Dendrobium

Flower Size .6" [1.4 cm]

Found in New Guinea on tree on hills at elevations of 50 to 150 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with slightly flattened stems carrying shiny, pale green, tapering narrowly ovate-lanceolate, bidentate apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a short, few flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex opposite the leaves and carrying short-lived flowers

Synonyms Grastidium falcatum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing good; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Guide to the Dendrobium of New Guinea Schuiteman 2013 photo fide;

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