Cadetia maliliensis (J.J.Sm.) Schuit. 1998 Photo by © N T Gerald and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name The Miniature Sized Cadetia
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in the Philippines at elevations of 300 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with ascending, inversely clavate, pale to medium green, moderately wrinkled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, rather stiff, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Dendrobium microphyton L.O.Williams 1937
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philippiana Valmayor 1985; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2009 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of the Philippines Cootes and Tiong 2015 photo fide;
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