Dendrobium millarae A.D.Hawkes 1957 SECTION Herpethophytum Schlechter 1912 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part Shade Cool LATEFall EARLYWinter

Common Name Millar's Dendrobium [French Female Botanist and Curator of Lae Botanical Garden 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with simple to subsimple, densely leafy stems carrying erect to suberect, fleshy, shiny, glabrous, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, subacute , unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, contracted below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a lateral, short, single flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white with the lip marked with red.

Synonyms Dendrobium dischorense Schltr. 1912; Herpetophytum millarae (A.D.Hawkes) Rauschert 1983

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

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