Dendrobium malbrownii Dockrill 1967 SECTION Monanthos Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name Malbrown's Dendrobium [Malcolm Brown, Australian First Collector of species] - Mcllwraith Hermit Orchid

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in New Guinea and Queensland Australia on high branches of rainforest trees at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters as a miniature to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with thin, wiry stems carrying 10 to 20, persistent, thin, linear, light olive green leaves that are held on the upper half of the stem and blooms in the summer and fall on a short, single flowered inflorescence with short lived flowers

Synonyms Monanthos malbrownii (Dockrill) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobiums Bakers 1996; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Monanthos malbrownii