Dendrobium cyrtolobum Schltr.1912 SECTION Brevisaccata Photo by © Art Vogel

Another Angle Photo by Rocky Roe © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Part Sun Warm LATER Spring

Common Name or Meaning The Bent Lip Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in the New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations around 800 meters as a medium to just large sized, warm growing epiphtye with elongate, flexuous, densely verrucose stems carrying many, erect-patent, oblong, obtuse, unequally bilobed apically, glabrous leaves that blooms in the spring on a erect-patent, graceful, 3.6" [9 cm] long, 3 to 7 flowered, racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms Dendrobium appendiculoides J.J.Sm. 1913; Trachyrhizum appendiculoides (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Trachyrhizum cyrtolobum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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