Cadetia arfakensis (J.J.Sm.) Schltr. 1922 SECTION Ptero-cadetia
Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
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Common Name The Arfak Mountain Cadetia [Mountain range in New Guinea]
Flower Size 5/8" [1.7cm]
Found in New Guinea in montane and limestone hill forests at elevations of 600 to 1900 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with close set, erect, slender, slightly thickeniong in the upper part stem carrying a single apical, erect, subfalcate, obliquely linear-lanceolate, fleshy-coriaceous, obtuse basally, unequally and acutely bidentate apically leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, several succssively single flowered inflorescence arising through a linear-triangular spathe.
Synonyms *Dendrobium arfakense J.J.Sm. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002
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