Dendrobium mooreanum Lindl. 1851 SECTION Latouria Photo courtesy of Arne Larsen Denmark and his Orchid Stamp Website

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Common Name Moore's Dendrobium [Collector of Species 1800's]

Flower Size 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm]

Found in Vanuatu in lowland to montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1100 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, erect, yellow stems consisting of 3 ot 4 nodes and carrying 2 to 4, apical, ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, acute leaves that blooms on 1 to 3, terminal, erect to arcuate, 7.2" [18 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence

Very similar to Dendrobium ruginosum from the Solomon Islands but differs in the relatively shorter, narrower petals and the entire or very obscurely lobed rhombic lip with a triangular acute apex.

Synonyms Dendrobium fairfaxii Rolfe 1889; Dendrobium petri Rchb.f. 1877; Dendrobium priscillae A.D.Hawkes 1957; Dendrobium quaifei Rolfe ex Ames 1933; Sayeria mooreana (Lindl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 12 1982 stamp; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989;

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