Dendrobium hamadryas Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium
Plant and Flower Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundatio At the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Hook Dendrobium
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in New Guinea in montane forests at elevations around 800 meters as a large sized, warm growing epiphyte with pendulous, simple, curved, leafy stems carrying many, smooth, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the later summer on a very short, 2 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Grastidium hamadryas (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;
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