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

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Common Name The Black Brown Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a simple, compressed, flexuous leafy stem with densely verruculose sheaths carrying erect-patent, oblong, obtuse, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a lateral, patent, compressed, densely verruculose, very short, subsessile, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are brownish, the lip whitish and the column foot is red spotted with a pale brown spot at the apex.

Synonyms Grastidium phaeanthum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

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

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