Dipodium pandanum F.M.Bailey 1902 SECTION Wailesia

Flower closeup Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Pandanus-Like Dipodium

Flower Size 1.5" [3.8 cm]

Found in Papua New Guinea. Solomon Islandas and Queensland Australia at elevations of 300 to 600 meters as a hot to warm growing saprophyte/epiphyte on humus at the base of trees and ascending with a climbing, densely leafy stem carrying many, alternately 2-ranked, linear-ligulate, gradually narrowing towards the apex, acute, conduplicate leaves that blooms in the summer through fall on an axillary, laxly many flowered, to 20" [50 cm] long racemose inflorescence with distant, short, broad, obtuse bracts and triangular floral bracts .

Said to be a synonym of D scandens, I await further verification.

Synonyms Dipodium pandanum var. pilotaenia Schltr. 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/85; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006