Dendrobium micholitzii Rolfe ex Ames 1904 SECTION Bolbodium Lindley 1850

Type drawing by © Ames and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Micholtitz's Dendrobium [German Orchid Collector Asia 1800's]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea without locality as a miniature sized epiphyteclustered, thin, obscurely quadrangular, apically leafy stems carrying 2, subopposite, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, thick, coriaceous, few nerved leaves that blooms on terminal?, short, single flowered inflorescence carrying.

Schlechter states that the flowers are either creamy yellow with a greenish orange-yellow spot and the other has red veins. He also states that this orchid is very similar to or may be the same as D hymenanthum.

Synonyms Bolbodium micholitzii (Rolfe ex Ames) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905 drawing fide; Das Pflanzenreich Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 drawing good; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913

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