Dendrobium parvilobum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Grastidium [Bl] J J Sm 1905 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Small Lobed Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 450 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to simple, slightly compressed, leafy stems carrying many patent, glabrous, oblong to oblong-ligulate,oblique, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, short, subsessile, 2 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are salmon-yellow.

Synonyms Grastidium parvilobum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

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

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