Dendrobium parvulum Rolfe 1899 SECTION Oxyglossum Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Plant and Flowers Photo By Darrin Norton Mountain Orchids Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Small Flowered Dendrobium

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found in Sulawesi, Celebes and Papua New Guinea at elevations of 900 to 1200 meters as a super miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with mat-forming, ovoid pseudobulb carrying 2 succulent, lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring on a short 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising on both leafless and leafy stems.

Synonyms Dendrobium delicatulum F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1894; Dendrobium delicatulum subsp. huliorum T.M.Reeve & P.Woods 1981; Dendrobium delicatulum subsp. parvulum (Rolfe) T.M.Reeve & P.Woods 1981; Dendrobium minutum Schltr. 912; Dendrobium parvulum subsp. huliorum (T.M.Reeve & P.Woods) Ormerod 2003; Dendrobium parvulum subsp. minutum (Schltr.) Ormerod 2003; Katherinea parvula (Rolfe) A.D.Hawkes 1956; Pedilonum minutum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Sarcopodium parvulum (Rolfe) Kraenzl. 1910

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989 as D delicatulum; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 as D delicatulum drawing ok: Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002 as D delicatulum subsp parvulum; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 3 2005;

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