Dendrobium affine [Decais.] Steudel 1840SECTION Phalaenanthe Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name or Meaning The Similar Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.2 to 1.6" [3-4 cm]

Found in northern Australia, New Guinea, and the islands of Timor, Seram and Tanimbar in high light, moist locations at the sides of lagoons, swamps or rainforests and even at the edges of deserts and harsh country as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with stout, tapered to conical pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 10, rigid, leathery, ovate-lanceolate to oblong leaves that are often decurved and blooms at most any time of the year other than the very late winter and early spring on a slender, nodding, 4 to 20" [10 to 50 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on both leafed and leafless pseudobulbs with successively opening, long-lived flowers that all face in one direction.

Synonyms Callista affinis (Decne.) Kuntze 1891; Callista dicupha (F.Muell.) Kuntze 1891; Callista leucophota (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium bigibbum Mueller not Lindley; Dendrobium dicuphum F.Muell. 1874; Dendrobium dicuphum var. album E.W.Cooper 1951; Dendrobium dicuphum var. dicuphum F.Muell. 1948; Dendrobium dicuphum var. grandiflorum Rupp & T.E. Hunt 1948; Dendrobium leucolophotum Rchb.f. 1882; Dendrobium leucophotum Rchb.f. 1882; Dendrobium urvillei Finet ? *Onychium afine Decaisne 1836; Vappodes affinis (Decne.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Vappodes dicupha (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002