Dendrobium integrum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Monanthos Schlechter 1905 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Entire Dendrobium [refers to the entire lip without divisions]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to simple, glabrous, compressed, densely leafy stems carrying erect, glabrous, rigid, linear to lanceolate-linear, margins somewhat involute, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence carrying a non-resupinate flower.

Schlechter states that the flowers are golden yellow and the column is dark red.

Synonyms Monanthos integer (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 photo good

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