Dendrobium subsessile Schltr. 1912 SECTION Oxystophyllum [Bl] Miq 1859 Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Almost Sessile Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1100 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to simple, pendent stems carrying many, erect-patent, glabrous, coriaceous, equitant, subfalcate-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on fasciculate, lateral to apical, short, single flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are dark carmine. He also states that D subsessile's closest relative is D torricellianum which differs in the broader petals and much broader labellum with an oval shape. The leaves are larger, broader and thicker as well.

Synonyms Aporum subsessile (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983; Oxystophyllum subsessile (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 Drawing fide;

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