Dendrobium goldfinchii F.Muell. 1883 SECTION Crumaenata Photo by © Owawan

Common Name The Goldfinch Dendrobium [An English Lieutenent in the Solomon Islands 1800's]

Flower Size 3/8" [9 mm]

Found in New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Santa Cruz Islands, Fiji and Samoa in rainforests at elevations of sea level to 800 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, erect to pendant, strongly constricted below, swollen in the middle, tapering to a thin, wiry, leafless apical portion, yellow green often tinged with red, zig-zag stem carrying alternate, two ranked, stiff, thick, bilaterally flattened, linear-lanceolate, usually tinged red, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer and again in the winter on a terminal, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Aporum goldfinchii (F.Muell.) Brieger 1981; Ceraia goldfinchii (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85; The Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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