Diplocaulobium regale [Schlechter] A.D.Hawkes 1957 SECTION Diplocaulobium
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Common Name The Regal Diplocaulobium
Flower Size 3" [8 cm]
A small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species found in New Guinea on mossy trees in tall humid forests at 700 to 2100 meters and is a hot to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical and slender above , swollen and ovoid basaly stems covered by imbricating sheaths and drying to bright yellow with age and carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-elliptic, subacute to obtuse leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a short inflorescence that arises from the base of the leaf through a large compressed sheath and has a single, showy, very short lived, flat flower at a time. It needs a well draining, quick drying medium to maintain the health of the plant.
Synonyms *Dendrobium regale Schltr. 1912; Dendrobium regale var. euanthum Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/85 as Dendrobium regale var. euanthum Schltr. 1912 Drawing fide; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 photo plant only; Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Speceis Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982 photo fide; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon, 1982 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photos fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002 photo fide; The Dendrobium HP Wood 2006 photo fide; Dendrobium and its relatives Lavarack, Stocker and Harris 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #8 2011 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of New Guinea Schuiteman 2013 as Dendrobium regale photo fide; Dendrobium of Borneo J J Wood 2014; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 1 2017 photo fide;
Diplocaulobium regale var alba Diplocaulobium regale var euanthe [Schlechter] A.D.Hawkes 1957
A color variety of the previous species.
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