Dendrobium torricellianum Kraenzl. 1910 SECTION Oxystophyllum Photo courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, 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 Torricelli Dendrobium [A mountain range in New Guinea]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations around 1100 meters as a medium to large sized, warm growing epiphyte with crowded, pendulous, non- to sparsely branched, densely many leafed stems completely enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying bilaterally flattened, lanceolate, acute, thickly coriaceous leaves that blooms in the spring on a fasciculate, successively single flowered inflorescencewith ovate, longer than the ovary, acute to acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Aporum torricellianum (Kraenzl.) Rauschert 1983; Dendrobium atrorubens Schltr. 1905; Dendrobium simile Schltr. 1906; Oxystophyllum torricellianum (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlecter 1912/85; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002

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