Dendrobium falcipetalum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium [Bl] J J Sm 1905 Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Falcate Petal Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 300 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with a simple, slightly compressed, leafy stem carrying erect-patent, glabrous, oblong-ligulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a lateral, very short, subsessile, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white with an orange-red keel on the lip and an orange red tip to the column foot.

Synonyms Grastidium falcipetalum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

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

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