Dendrobium finetianum Schltr.1906 SECTION Grastidium
red lipped plant in situ New Caledonia Photos by © Edouard Faria
Common Name Finet's Dendrobium [French Botanist later 1800's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in New Caledonia in rain forests at elevations of 150 to 1250 meters as a small to large sized hot to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, slender, woody, slightly zigzag stems carrying deciduous, spreading to erect, leathery, linear, bilobed leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on several, erect to spreading, racemose, .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence arising on leafy or leafless canes and carry fragrant flowers
Synonyms Bouletia finetiana (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Grastidium finetianum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societie Neo-Caledonienne d'Orchidophile 1995 photo ok; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums Wood 2006 photo ok
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