Dendrobium bifalce Lindl. 1843 SECTION Latouria Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name The Two Sickles Dendrobium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, the Bismark Islands, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Queensland Australia in coastal or riverine forests at elevations of sealevel to 800 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with stout, apically thickening, 5 to 7 noded stems carrying 2 to 4, coriaceous, suberect, elliptic-oblong, obtuse leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a erect, axillary, 10 to 16" [25 to 40 cm] long, distantly few to many flowered, terete, stout inflorescence with fleshy, triangular-ovate, apicaulate floral bracts.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum oncidiochilum Kraenzl. 1894; Callista bifalcis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium breviracemosum F.M.Bailey 1899; Dendrobium chloropterum Rchb.f. & S.Moore 1878; Doritis bifalcis (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1860; Latourea oncidiochila (Kraenzl.) Kraenzl. 1894; Leioanthum bifalce (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Sayeria bifalcis (Lindl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002