Dendrobium lamprocaulon Schltr. 1905 SECTION Platycaulon TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Shining Stems Dendrobium

Flower Size .4 to .52" [1 to 1.3 cm]

Found in the Bismarck Archipelago on forests trees at elevations around 600 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with clustered, shiny, elliptic to oblong pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, oblong, quickly deciduous, smooth, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the winter on a 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence carrying white flowers flushed with red that do not open fully.

Synonyms Eurycaulis lamprocaulon (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Pedilonum lamprocaulon (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandrae-Dendrobiinae Kraenzlin 1910; The Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Baker 1996;

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