Dendrobium lineale Rolfe 1889 SECTION Spatulata

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Joseph Dougherty

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Common Name Morobe Shower - Jawani Island Yellow - Kui Blue - Kakar Island Pink - Sospan Island Yellow [All PNG]

Flower Size 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm]

Found as a large to giant sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte at elevations up to 800 meters along streams and oceans with erect, cane-like stems that are leafy towards the apex carrying many, oblong or lanceolate, rigid, leathery, persistent, dark green leaves and is very floriferous on a to 3' [to 90 cm] long, arcuate, densly or laxly many [15 to 35] flowered inflorescence with fragrant, long-lived, heavy-textured, color variable flowers that arise from the nodes at or near the apex of the older leafed canes occuring mostly from the spring through early fall. Reduce water and fertilizer somewhat for 2 to 3 months in the winter and resume only with the onset of new growth in the spring.

Synonyms Callista veratrifolia (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium augustae-victoriae Kraenzl. 1894; Dendrobium cogniauxianum Kraenzl. ex Warb. 1891; Dendrobium grantii C.T.White 1940; Dendrobium imperatrix Kraenzl. 1895; Dendrobium veratroides Bakh.f. 1963; Dendrobium veratrifolium Lindl. non Roxb. 1843; Durabaculum veratrifolium M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 2 1982 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 2 1982 photo as D veratrifolium; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 9 1987 photo; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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