Dendrobium verruciflorum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium [Bl] J J Sm 1905 Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Brownish Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 300 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with a simple, compressed, flexuous leafy stem carrying erect-patent to patent, glabrous oblong-ligulate, obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring on a lateral, compressed, very short, subsessile, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are brown externally and whitish internally.

Synonyms Grastidium verruciflorum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide;

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