Dendrobium cochleatum J.J.Sm. 1908 SECTION Calyptrochilus

Another Angle Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Shell-Like Dendrobium

Flower Size .75" [1.7 cm] long

Found in Irian Jaya [western New Guinea] at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters as a large sized, warm growing epiphtye with closeset, elongate, flexuous, many noded stem carrying ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acute, mucronate, minutely serrate margined leaves that blooms in the summer on a subcongested, verrucose, .4" [1 cm] long, few [3 to 8] flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Chromatotriccum cochleatum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Pedilonum cochleatum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 as D aff cochleatum drawing/photo good; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 as D aff cochleatum photo ok

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