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

Part Shade Cool MID Spring EARLY Summer

Common Name The Clump Like Dendrobium [refers to the shiny-varnished leaves]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1200 to 1600 meters as a large sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to simple, sometimes branching, slightly compressed stems carrying many, erect-patent to subpatent, close set, glabrous, reflexed, linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the mid spring through early summer on lateral, compressed, short, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are greenish white, lightly flushed on the exterior by brown and the column is yellow in front

Synonyms Grastidium glebulosum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 Drawing fide;

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