Dendrobium baeuerlenii F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1894 SECTION Calyptrochilus Photo by Rocky Roe © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

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Common Name or Meaning Baeuerlen's Dendrobium

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in the New Guinea in mist forests at elevations around 80 meters as a medium to just large sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered pseudobulbs carrying many, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the late fall or early winter on a short few flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the pseudobulb.

Synonyms Chromatotriccum baeuerlenii (F.Muell. & Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Pedilonum baeurlenii (F.Muell. & Kraenzl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 drawing ok; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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