Diplocaulobium mekynosepalum (Schltr.) Kraenzl. 1910 SECTION Diplocaulobium
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Common Name
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
This species is a medium large hot to warm growing epiphyte found in New Guinea in lowland forests or in rubber plantations usually on trunks or barnches of trees with a mossy area at elevations of 750 to 1300 meters where it blooms in the spring on a erect to drooping, successively flowering inflorescence with up to 2, short-lived flowers open at a time arising from a compressed, ovate-elliptic yellow brown bract at the leaf axil of a mature pseudobulb.
Synonyms *Dendrobium mekynosepalum Schltr. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985 as *Dendrobium mekynosepalum Schltr. 1906 Drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002
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