Dendrobium summerhayesianum A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller 1957 SECTION Grastidium

Another Angle Photo by Brian Hodgkins © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name or Meaning Summerhayes' Dendrobium [English Orchid Botanist and African Specialist 1900's]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations of 600 to 700 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with an unbranched, erect to arching, elongate, flexuous, slender, glabrous stem carrying all along the stem, patent to erect-patent, elliptic, unequally bilobed apically, glabrous leaves that blooms in the fall on very short, subsessile, 2 flowered inflorescence

I am not sure of this determination, I have checked Schlechter's drawing of D pictum which is designated as a synonym of D summerhayesianum and it does not compare well for the overall view of the positioning of the sepals and petals. I have no other relevant references.

Synonyms Dendrobium pictum Schltr. 1912; Dendrobium pictum var. muriciferum J.J.Sm. 1916; Grastidium muriciferum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1997; Grastidium summerhayesianum (A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as D pictum drawing hmm; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 as Grastidium summerhaysianum photo good

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