Dendrobium putnamii A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller 1957 SECTION Pedilonum

Plant and Flowers in situ Photo by Mrs Ralph Levy © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name or Meaning Putnam's Dendrobium

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Papua New Guinea in deep shade on tree trunks, cliff faces and on rocks at elevations around 2100 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte and lithophyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to minute, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, towards the apex, lanceolate, erect-spreading leaves that blooms in the spring on a very short, 1 to rarely 2 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Dendrobium coerulescens Schltr. 1912; Pedilonum putnamii (A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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