Dendrobium melanostictum Schltr. 1905
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Plant and Flowers Photo 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
Plant and Another Flower? Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name or Meaning The Black Spotted Dendrobium [refers to the black spots on the back of the sepals]
Flower Size .7" [1.7 cm]
Found in the Papua New Guinea and the Santa Cruz Islands in swamps and lowland forests and seasonally dry rainforests at elevations of sealevel to 450 meters as a small to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, flexuous stems completely enveloped by tubular, longer than the internodes leaf sheaths and carrying many erect, lanceolate, acute, minutelyunequally bidentate leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a lateral from the stem, perfprating 2 sheaths, raccemose, subcapitate, short, subsessile, minutely squamose, 7 flowered inflorescence with oblong, subcucullate-incurved, truncate floral bracts leaves that blooms all year on a lateral from the stem, subsessile, 2 flowered inflorescence arising through a short, oblong, obtuse spathe.
Synonyms Amblyanthe melanosticta (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Amblyanthe squamifera (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Amblyanthus melanostictus (Schltr.) Brieger 1981; Dendrobium squamiferum J.J.Sm. 1908
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlecter 1912 drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994 as D squamiferum drawing/photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002 as D squamiferum
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