Dendrobium inaequale Rolfe 1900 SECTION Fugacia Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

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Common Name The Unequal Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 to almost 1 1/2" [2.5 to 3.75 cm]

Found as a small sized, lowland, hot to warm growing epiphyte high on the tips of small branches in tall trees in New Guinea at elevations up to 900 meters with quadrangular, severa ljointed, clustered, swollen in the middle and tapering at both ends pseudobulb carrying 2 to 5 apical, lanceolate, dark green leathery leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on an axillary, few flowered, racemose inflorescence with very short lived flowers that arise from nodes at the apex of the leafed psuedobulbs. Water should be reduced and fertilizer eliminated for the winter but plants should never completely dry out, resumption of fertilizer and water begins with the onset of new growth in the spring.

Cited as a synonym of D lacteum I have left separate for now.

Synonyms Euphlebium inaequale (Rolfe) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide;

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