Diplocaulobium minjemense (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes 1957 SECTION Goniobulbon

Plant and Flower

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Plant and Flower Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Part shadeHot winter

Common Name or Meaning The Minjem Diplocaulobium [A River In New Guinea]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on tall trees in riverine forests at elevations around 180 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome giving rise to compressed, 4 angled pseudobulbscarrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-ligualte, glabrous, coriaceous, subrigid leaf that blooms in the winter on a compresed, short, successively single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Dendrobium minjemense Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Dendrobium minjemense drawing close; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo ok;

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