Dendrobium sarcodes Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Another Flower Angle Photos by Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name or Meaning The Flesh-Colored Dendrobium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate, flexuous, glabrous stem carrying many, dense, elliptic-ligulate, obtuse, unequally bilobed apically, glabrous leaves that blooms in the winter on a subsessile, lateral, compressed, 2 flowered inflorescence carrying fleshy flowers that are held mentum to mentum.

Synonyms Dendrobium sarcodes var. majus Schltr. 1912; Grastidium sarcodes (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing close; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as D sarcodes var majus; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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