Dendrobium obliquum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium [Bl] J J Sm 1905 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Oblique Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 300 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to simple, slightly compressed, densely leafy stems carrying many patent, glabrous, elliptic, oblique, unequaly bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, short, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are yellowish white with an orange red spot on the apex of the column foot. Very similar to D axillare but this one is smaller in all respects, has a different lip and is different in the colors of the flower.

Synonyms Grastidium obliquum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide;

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