Dendrobium mayandyi T.M.Reeve & Renz 1981 SECTION Latouria

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning Mayandy's Dendrobium

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in New Guinea and the Bismark's in mossy, montane rainforests at elevations of 1800 to 3100 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing erect to pendant growing epiphyte with close set, narrowly clavate to fusiform, slender and terete below, several noded pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, apical, coriaceous,, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, shortly petiolate, acute leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on 1 to 4, subterminal, erect to arcuate, axillary, 3.4 to 4" long [8.5 to 10 cm] long, 5 to 7 flowered, terete inflorescence with 3 amplexicaul sheaths and falcate, lanceolate, acumiante floral bracts.

Synonyms Sayeria mayandyi (T.M.Reeve & Renz) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994 as D kenejianum; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002