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

Part Shade Hot LATE Winter EARLY Spring

Common Name The Extra Blooming From the Axil Dendrobium [refers to the flower sheaths emerging above the joint of the leaf sheaths]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 300 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to simple, terete, densely leafy stems carrying many patent, glabrous, elliptic, obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a short, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are whitish on the outside, densely red-brown marbled on the inside, e lip has a white middle lobe and the column is white.

Schlechter also states that he chose the name extra-axillare to indicate that this species is distinguished by the flower sheaths emerging above the joint of the leaf sheaths.

Synonyms Grastidium extra-axillare (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide;

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