Dendrobium platygastrium Rchb. f. 1878 SECTION Calcarifera Photo by Jo Levy © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

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

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Common Name The Broad-Bellied Dendrobium

Flower Size 3/4 to 1 1/4" [1.5 to 3 cm]

A Philippine, New Guinea, Solomon Island and Vanuatu minature sized, hot growing, epiphytic species said to be a synonym of Dendrobium platycaulon found at elevations of 0 to 1200 meters with moss and ferns in dense lowland and montane, humid forests near watercourses, mangrove swamps, moss forests and plantations with erect, clustered, flattened and cub-shaped towards the apex, basally narrow stems enveloped by leaf sheaths carrying 2 to 8, oval, thin, medium green, deciduous leaves after flowering that occurs in the spring and again in the fall on a terminal or lateral, short to 1 1/4 to 2 3/8" [3 to 6 cm], erect, few flowered, racemose inflorescence that arises from the nodes near the apex of leafed and leafless canes with non-resupinate flowers This species and D platycaulon are both cited as synonyms one way or the other, but I have left them separate at this time. Please refer to the other species for more information..

Synonyms Callista platygastria (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium camptocentrum Schltr. 1906; Dendrobium goldfinchii Kranzlin; Dendrobium lamprocaulon Schltr. 1906; Dendrobium platycaulon Rolfe 1892; Eurycaulis camptocentrus (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Eurycaulis lamprocaulon (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. 2003; Eurycaulis platygastrius (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem 2003; Pedilonum camptocentrum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Pedilonum lamprocaulon (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Pedilonum platygastrium (Rchb. f.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1878; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912[1985] as Dendrobium lamprocaulon; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 as D camptocentrum photo fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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