Dendrobium igneum J.J. Sm. 1908 SECTION Grastidium Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Clone Photo by Patricia Harding

Plant and Flower Ensitu Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

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Common Name The Fire Red Debdrobium

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in western New Guinea on trees in swamps or in primary forests as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at lower elevations with clustered, somewhat flattened stems carrying many, distichous, imbricating, all in one plane, elliptic leaves and blooms in the late winter on a very short, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Grastidium igneum (J.J.Sm.) S.Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/1985; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 3 2000 photo as Grastisdium igneum; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 2 2008 photo as Grastidium igneum

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