Dendrobium pogonantherum J.J.Sm. 1907 SECTION Grastidium Drawing by © J J Smith

Common Name The Many Flowered Dendrobium

Flower Size .56" [1.4 cm]

Found in New Guinea in the low lying Aru Islands as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with dark, flattened, clustered stems carrying manby, liunear, pale green leaves that blooms on short, all along the stem, 2 flowered inflorescence carrying with white flowers with a a pale orange, hairy mid lobe to the lip.

Synonyms Grastidium pogonantherum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996

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