Dendrobium lepidochilum Kraenzl. 1910 SECTION Grastidium

Plant and Inflorescence Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Janz Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Scaled Lip Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]

Found in Samoa in swampy and montane forests at elevations of 200 to 400 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, pendent to erect, leafy stems carrying coriaceous, oblong-ovate, rounded and apically unequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on very short, 2 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Grastidium lepidochilum (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Revision of the Orchids of German Samoa Schlechter 1910/11; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996 as syn of D dactylodes; The Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996 drawing/photo fide

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