Dendrobium roseipes Schltr. 1912 SECTION Pedilonum

Side View Photos courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©

Plant and Flowers Photos by Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name The Red-Rose Foot Dendrobium

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in northeastern New Guinea just below the mist forest zone on lower mossy tree branches at elevations of 450 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, pendant, hot to warm growing epiphyte with gray-brown to yellowish-green cane-like stems carrying many, yellowish-green, deciduous leaves dropping before blooming in the fall on an all along the stem and apically, short, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pedilonum roseipes ( Schltr. ) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1995 *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/85 drawing fide; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photos fide; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of New Guinea Schuiteman 2013 photo fide;

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