Dendrobium molle J.J.Sm.1908 SECTION Pedilonum Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Another Inflorescence Photo by © Art Vogel

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Common Name The Soft Dendrobium

Flower Size .5" [1.3 cm]

Found in western New Guinea in primary forests on trees as a small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elongated stems carrying many, lanceolate, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in summer and the fall on a thick, 1" [2.5 cm] long, shortly pubescent, several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Pedilonum molle (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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