Dendrobium roseoflavidum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Monanthos Schlechter 1905 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Rose Yellow Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 700 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to simple, glabrous, compressed, densely leafy stems carrying erect, glabrous, linear leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence carrying a non-resupinate flower.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pink with a yellowish tip to the tepals, and the lip is paler with red transverse wrinkles and small warts

Synonyms Monanthos roseoflavidus (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

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

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