Dendrobium rupestre J.J.Sm. 1911 SECTION Pedilonium NO Photo

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Common Name The Rock-Loving Dendrobium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in New Guinea at elevations of 1500 to 3100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte in mosses with obovoid, 1 to 3 noded canes carrying a single, lanceolate, acute, hooked apically leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a .8" [2 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence.

I am very unsure of this determination and need to have more information. Does not fit because of flower color and amount of flowers on the inflorescence. Anyone?

Synonyms Pedilonum rupestre (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985; The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea P Van Royen 1979 drawing; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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