Dendrobium armeniacum P.J.Cribb 1981 SECTION Latouria Photo by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Plant and Flower Photos by © Art Vogel
Common Name or Meaning The Orange Dendrobium [refers to the often orange leaves or the orange striped lip]
Flower Size
Found in Papua New Guinea at elevations around 1500 to 2400 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with pendulous, yellow with age, 3 noded, slightly tapering towards the base stems carrying 1 to 2, apical, thin-textured, basally twisted so as to all face in one plane, frequenly orange leaves that blooms in the winter on a 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence carrying small fleshy flowers.
This species is closely related to D euryanthum but it differs in having a different lip shape and the 3 ridged callus of the lip is larger.
Synonyms Sayeria armeniaca (P.J.Cribb) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Dendrobium and their Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo good; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #4 2010 photo fide;
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
