Dendrobium rubropictum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium [Bl] J J Sm 1905 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Red Painted Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 15 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to thin, simple, slightly compressed, densely leafy stems carrying many erect-patent to subpatent, glabrous, elongate linear, acute, unequally and acutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the winter on an axillary, short, compressed, subsessile 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white with red markings on the lateral lobes of the lip and a golden yellow crest as well as the column foot with na golden yellow spot near the apex.

Synonyms Grastidium rubropictum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide;

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