Dendrobium virotii Guillaumin 1941 SECTION Dendrobates TYPE for the Section

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 on montane slopes in rainforests and occasionally scrubland on tree trunks at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with leafy, grooved, slightly zigzag, branching stems 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 , Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societie Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums Wood 2006 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014

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