Diplocaulobium kirchianum (A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961 Photo 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

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in New Guinea in lowland swamp forests, mangroves and coastal forests at elevations of sealevel to 300 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with subcylindrical, deeply 6 grooved, basally adpressed to the rhizome pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, curved, lanceolate, rigidly coriaceous, subequally bidentate apically leaf that blooms all year on a terminal, successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe

Synonyms Dendrobium bulbophylloides J.J.Sm. 1913; *Dendrobium kirchianum A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller 1957;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002