Dendrobium verruculosum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Pedilonium

Another Angle Photos 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 Verrucose Dendrobium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1450 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with crowded, erect to patent, slender, non-branching stems enveloped completely by densely verrucose leaf sheaths and carrying patent, lanceolate-ligulate, acute, apiculate leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and fall on a racemose, very short, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence with ovate, shorter than the pedicel, shortly acuminate floral bracts with resupinate and non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms Chromatotriccum verruculosum (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Pedilonum verruculosum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 as Grastidium verruculosum; photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002

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