Dendrobium subuliferum J.J. Sm. 1911 SECTION Oxyglossum Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Marni Turkel

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Common Name The Round Flowered Dendrobium

Flower Size .3 to .5" [.8 to 1.25 cm]

Found in Papua and New Guinea in primary and secondary forests at elevations of 300 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte and ocasional terrestrial in shady, moss covered locations with ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2 apical, linear, acute, rigid, curved leaves that has minute warts on the margin that blooms on very short inflorescence arising towards the apex of the stem and carry a single, erect, fully open flowers occuring in the fall through spring

Synonyms Dendrobium subuliferum var. gautierense J.J.Sm. 1916; Pedilonum subuliferum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea P Van Royen 1979 drawing ok?; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 3 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 4 2005 photo; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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