Dendrobium hymenocentrum Schltr. 1912 Crumenata Pfitzer 1889 Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Delicate Center Dendrobium
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea at elevations around 15 meters as a medium to just large sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to compressed, 8 ribbed, apically leafless and zig-zag stems carrying many, erect, 2 ranked, alternate, glabrous, coriaceous, mid green tinged purple, bilaterally flattened, falcate, lanceolate-ligulate, acute leaves that blooms in the winter on fasciculate, lateral to terminal, to 8" [20 cm] long, successive, single, many flowered inflorescence.
Schlechter states that the flowers are greenish white with red veins and the lip is white with a green middle crest and red veins at the base.
Synonyms Aporum hymenocentrum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Ceraia hymenocentra (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 Drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 as D sp aff. hymenocentrum photo fide;
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