Dendrobium alticola Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium [Bl] J J Sm 1905 Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The High Living Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 2400 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to simple, rigid, leafy throughout stems carrying many, erect-patent, glabrous, rigid, elliptic, obtuse and unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a very short, subsessile, 2 flowered inflorescence carrying short lived flowers.

Schlechter states that the flowers are yellowish, red spotted and the column foot has a red spot and a red callus .

Synonyms Grastidium alticola (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 as Grastidium alticolum photo good

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