Dendrobium petiolatum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Oxyglossum Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Stemmed Dendrobium

Flower Size 1/2" to 3/4" [1.25 to 1.85 cm]

Found in New Guinea as a miniature, warm to cold growing, epiphytic orchid at elevations of 800 to 2400 meters on mossy horizontal branches in deep shade that has erect to suberect stems enveloped by fibers of persistent leaf sheaths carrying a single, oblong-elliptic leaf with a distinct stem and is semi-deciduous with the flowers occuring in the spring and summer on a short, few to many [4 to 20] flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex of leafless psuedobulbs. Reduse watrer and fertilizer to keep the plant on the dry side yet not completely dry until new growth arises in the spring.

SynonymsDendrobium unifoliatum Schltr.1921; Pedilonum petiolatum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 4 1999 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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