Diplocaulobium hydrophilum [J.J.Sm.] Kraenzl.1910 SECTION Diplocaulobium Photo by Peter O'Byrne, courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Plant and Flower Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Water Loving Diplocaulobium
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in the Moluccas, Bismark Archipelago and New Guinea in swamps, savannahs, rainforests and hill forests at elevations of sealevel to 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with crowded, basally oblong-ovoid, apically slender and angular pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear, bilobed, concave on either side of the convex mid vein, weakly keeled beneath leaf that blooms in the late summer through early spring on a terminal, successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a laterally flattened, narrow, acute spathe.
Synonyms *Dendrobium hydrophilum J.J. Sm. 1909; Dendrobium hydrophilum var. morotaiense J.J.Sm. 1912; Diplocaulobium hydrophilum var. morotaiense (J.J.Sm.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85 as Dendrobium hydrophilum; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994 drawing ok; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Dendrobium and its relatives Lavarack, Stocker and Harris 2006 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of New Guinea Schuiteman 2013 as Dendrobium hydrophilum photo fide;
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