Dendrobium rarum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Pedilonum Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
Common Name The Rare Dendrobium
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Northern Papua and New Guinea as well as Vanuatu in moss-covered mist forests at elevations of 1200 to 1300 meters and in primary and secondary forests at elevations of 40 to 800 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, dull purple, erect, grooved, basally swollen stems carrying many, thin-textured, linear, pointed, erect, unequally bilobed apically, bright green with a purple flush leaves that blooms on a olive to purple green becoming red, inflorescence that arise from the nodes on the upper half of leafless stems with pendant clusters of 8 to 15, smaller flowers occuring in the spring. In winter the water and fertilizer should be reduced and only increased with the onset of new growth in the spring.
Synonyms Pedilonum rarum (Schltr.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94: 463 (1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002
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