Dendrobium erectum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium [Bl] J J Sm 1905 Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Erect Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 900 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to simple, slightly compressed stems carrying many, erect-patent to subpatent, glabrous, lanceolate, acute, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on lateral, compressed, short, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are whitish red spotted on the outside and yellowish inside.

Synonyms Grastidium erectum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 Drawing fide;

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