Dendrobium virotii Guillaumin 1941 SECTION Grastidium

Plant and Flower in situ New Caledonia Photos by © Edouard Faria

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Common Name Virot's Dendrobium

Flower Size .3" [7mm]

Found in New Caledonia in montane slopes in rainforest and occasionally scrubland on tree trunks at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with leafy, grooved, slightly zigzag, branching stem carrying many, elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring on a 2 to 5" [5 to 12.5 cm] long, rarely branching, 6 to 22 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Dendrobates virotii (Guillaumin) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Grastidium virotii (Guillaumin) Rauschert 1983;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societie Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 photo fide; Orchdi Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums Wood 2006 photo fide

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