Dendrobium vandifolium Finet 1903 SECTION Macrocladium
Plant and Flower Photos by © Gildas Gāteblé, Jean Jacques Villegente and Bernard Suprin The New Caledonia Endemia Website
Common Name or Meaning The Vanda Like Leaf Dendrobium
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in New Caledonia as a large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, strong, robust stem carrying many arcuate, strap-shaped leaves that blooms in the fall, winter and spring on numerous, axillary, drooping, 10 to 30 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Cannaeorchis vandifolia (Finet) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1997 publ. 1998; Dendrobium vandifolium var. brevipedicellata Finet 1903; Grastidium vandifolium (Finet) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonienne d'Orchidophile 1995 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996 ;The Dendrobium H P Wood 2006 photo fide;
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