Dendrobium reineckei Schltr. 1911SECTION Grastidium Photo/drawing by © Whistler & Cribb 1996

Common Name Reineck's Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in the Fiji and Samoa in montane and cloud forests at elevations of 600 to 1550 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, reed-like, many noded, leafy in the apical half stem carrying distichous, linear-lanceolate, obliquely acute, articulate to the weakly striate leaf sheaths below leaves that blooms on a lateral, emerging opposite the leaves from the nodes, peduncle .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, 2 flowered inflorescence with triangular bracts and carrying membraneous, white flowers spotted with pink or red.

Synonyms Grastidium reineckei (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996 photo fide;

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