Dendrobium koordersii J.J.Sm. 1905 SECTION Monanthos

Inflorescence

Plant and Flower Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part sun Warm Fall Winter Spring

Common Name Koorder's Dendrobium

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Moluccas and Sulawesi in primary forests at elevations around 910 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with clustered, erect stems carrying many, linear, bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall, winter and earlier spring on a few, short, single flowered inflorescence carrying a non-resupinate flower.

Synonyms Monanthos koordersii (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000;

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