Dendrobium petiolatum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Calyptrochilus Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Stemmed Dendrobium

Flower Size 1/2" to 3/4" [1.25 to 1.85 cm]

Found in New Guinea as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing, epiphytic orchid at elevations of 800 to 2400 meters on mossy horizontal branches in deep shade that has erect to suberect stems enveloped by fibers of persistent leaf sheaths carrying a single, oblong-elliptic leaf with a distinct stem and is semi-deciduous with the flowers occuring in the spring and summer on a short, few to many [4 to 20] flowered inflorescence arising from the nodes near the apex of leafless pseudobulbs.

Reduce water and fertilizer to keep the plant on the dry side yet not completely dry until new growth arises in the spring.

SynonymsDendrobium unifoliatum Schltr.1921; Pedilonum petiolatum (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991; A Guide to Orchids of the World Hodgson, Paine & Anderson 1991 Photo good; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 4 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 3 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Miniature Orchids Frownie 2007 photo fide; Mille Et Une miniOrchidees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of New Guinea Schuiteman 2013 photo fide;

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