Dendrobium stratiotes Rchb. f. 1886 SECTION Spatulata

Inflorescence and plant Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Stalwart Dendrobium [refers to the flowers standing up in a row with the sepal]

Flower Size 3 to 4" [8 to 10 cm]

Found in western New Guinea and Sulawesi at lower elevations as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, terete to long fusiform atems carrying 5 to many, rigid, leathery, persistent, narrowly ovate, coriaceous, obtuse leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect to suberect, 3 to 12" [7.5 to 30 cm] long inflorescence carrying 9 to 15, large flowers that arises from the middle to the apex of mature pseudobulbs occuring in the summer and fall. Water should be reduced and fertilizer eliminated during the winter months and resumed with the onset of new growth in the spring.

Synonyms Callista stratiotes (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Ceratobium stratiotes (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002 ; Dendrobium strebloceras Rchb.f 1886 var rossianum

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 11 1986 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 56 No 3 1992 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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