Dendrobium terrestre J.J.Sm. 1911 SECTION Latouria Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Terrestrial Dendrobium

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in New Guinea and the Bismark archipelago in mossy montane forests and peat bogs at elevations of 1800 to 2800 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with clustered, terete, 9 to 14 noded below the leaves which are in the apical third of the stem enveloped in youth by compressed sheaths and carrying many, well spaces, coriaceous, suberect to spreading, flat, elliptic, apically rounded, shortly petiolate leaves that blooms in the winter spring and fall on a terminal or subterminal, erect to spreading, 6 to 20 flowered inflorescence with cucullate, narrowly elliptic, subacute floral bracts.

Synonyms Dendrobium magnificum Schltr. 1912; Sayeria terrestris (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlecter 1985; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 1 2006 photo;