Dendrobium bulbophylloides Schltr. 1912 SECTION Microphytanthe Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens

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Common Name Bulbophyllum-like Dendrobium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Northern Papua and New Guinea in montane forests on tall trees as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1000 to 2100 meters with .4" [1 cm] between each, oblong to cylindrical, brown to reddish brown or green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, ovate to oblong, thick, fleshy and nearly erect leaf blooming on a terminal, .2" [.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that arises on newer pseudobulbs from beneath the leaf petiole and carry a single, fleshy, large for the plant, long-lasting flower occuring in the summer.

Synonyms Cadetia mayrii (J.J.Sm.) P.F.Hunt 1971; Dendrobium mayrii J.J.Sm. 1934

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006