Dendrobium leucocyanum T.M. Reeve 1982 SECTION Pedilonium Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Side View of Inflorescence Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The White and Blue Dendrobium

Flower Size .3 to .4" [.8 to 1.1 cm]

Found in Northern Papua New Guinea as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, creeping, mat forming epiphyte at elevations of 2130 to 2590 meters with spherical, tightly clustered psuedobulbs that ar green and sheath covered when new and turn brown to reddish with age and carry 2 to 3 ovate-elliptic, soft, wavy leaves arising towards the apex of new pseudobulbs. This species blooms on a very short inflorescence that arise from the apical nodes of leafless pseudobulbs occuring in the winter with the 5 to 25 flowers in a tight cluster.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 11 1992 photo; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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