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

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Common Name The Gati Mountain Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to thin, simple, slightly compressed, densely leafy stems carrying many erect-patent to subpatent, glabrous, lanceolate linear, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring on an axillary, short, compressed, subsessile 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white, the lip with rose red transverse warts and a yellow central keel and the column is red at the base and has a yellow callus.

Synonyms Grastidium gatiense (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

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

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