Dendrobium obtusipetalum J.J. Sm. 1911 SECTION Calyptrochilus Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden

Another Flower Angle Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch, Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

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Common Name The Blunt-Sepaled Dendrobium [refers to the candy corn shape of the flower petals]

Flower Size 3/4" [1.85 cm]

Found in New Guinea in montane and subalpine scrub as a large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with pendulous, many angled, branched stems carrying many, thin, ovate, dark green leaves that twist to form a single plane and is found in humus in shady, mossy branches of forest trees and on sub alpine shrubs at altitudes of 1850 to 3300 meters where they bloom in the fall and winter on a short, fasciculate, few flowered [1 to 4] inflorescence with pendulous, large, longlasting, very wide opening, showy flowers that arises from the nodes at the upper end of leafless cane branches. Reduce water and fertilizer somewhat in the winter although never allow to completly dry out.

Synonyms Chromatotriccum deflexum (Ridl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Chromatotriccum obtusipetalum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Chromatotriccum vacciniifolium (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Chromatotriccum wentianum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Dendrobium deflexum Ridl. 1916; Dendrobium obtusisepalum J.J. Sm. 1911; Dendrobium vacciniifolium J.J.Sm. 1935; Dendrobium wentianum J.J.Sm. 1911; Pedilonum deflexum (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983; Pedilonum obtusipetalum (J.J. Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Pedilonum wentianum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea P Van Royen 1979 drawing fide; The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea P Van Royen 1979 as D wentianum drawing fide; The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea P Van Royen 1979 as D deflexum drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 3 1998 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 2 1999 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 5 1999 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 4 2006 photo; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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