Dendrobium melanotrichum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Distichophyllae Hkr.f. 1890 Drawings by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
LATE EARLY
Common Name The Black Haired Dendrobium
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea at elevations around 900 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to simple, subflexuous stems carrying many, apical, erect-patent, glabrous, coriaceous, lanceolate-oblong, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a lateral, short, 1 to rarely 2 flowered inflorescence with deltoid, minute bracts
Schlechter states that the flowers are yellowish with pale brown venation
Synonyms Distichorchis melanotricha (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 Drawing fide;
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