Dendrobium alaticaulinum P. Royen 1979 SECTION Calyptrochilus
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website
Common Name The Winged-Stem Dendrobium
Flower Size .2" [.4 to .5 cm]
Found in Papua and New Guinea at elevations of 2750 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, pendant, often fractiflex, and branched stems carrying small, deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, dull dark-green, thin, spreading leaves that are spaced along the length of the stem, blooming in the spring on a tassel-like, .6" [1.5 cm] long, few to several [3 to 8] flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes on leafless stems.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea P Van Royen 1979 drawing ok; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; Dendrobium and their Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo good; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 4 2006 photo; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Mille Et Une miniOrchidees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #4 2010 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 77 #1 2013 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of New Guinea Andre Schuiteman 2013 photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo fide
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