Cadetia imitans Schltr. 1912 SECTION Ptero-Cadetia

Plant and Flower Photos by © Ed de Vogel and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name The Imitative Cadetia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to cylindrical, somewhat angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, oblanceolate-ligulate, apiculate, glabrous leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal, successively single, 2 to 3, flowered inflorescence arising through a compressed spathe

Synonyms Cadetia lactiflora Schltr. 1922; Dendrobium lactiflorum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm.1934; Dendrobium subretusum J.J.Sm. 1912;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing hmm; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 drawing fide;

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