Cadetia chamaephytum (Schltr.) Schltr. 1912 SECTION Ptero-cadetia Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

MID THROUGH LATE

Common Name The Low Growth Cadetia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea and the Moluccas in montane mist forests on tree trunks or on mossy branches at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters as a warm growing epiphyte that blooms in the mid spring through late summer

Synonyms Cadetia foersteriana Schltr. 1919; Cadetia leucantha Schltr. 1912; Cadetia subhastata (J.J.Sm.) Schltr. 1922; *Dendrobium chamaephytum Schltr. 1905; Dendrobium leucanthum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912; Dendrobium salhutuense J.J.Sm. 1927; Dendrobium subhastatum J.J.Sm. 1912;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as Dendrobium chamaephytum; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide; The Orchids of the High Mountains of New Guinea Royen 1979 as Dendrobium chamaephytum drawing ok; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996 as Dendrobium chamaephytum

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