Cadetia takadui Schltr. 1912 SECTION Ptero-Cadetia Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Takadu's Cadetia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 400 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to thin, acutely four angled, attenuate below pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, glabrous, coriaceous, shiny, subfalcate-ligulate, obtuse, apically minutely cut leaf that blooms in the late summer and fall on an apical, erect to suberect, compressed, shortly acuminate, .4 to .6" [1 to .5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Schlecther states that the flowers are white with a yellow middle lobe to the lip and a red spot on the anther.

Synonyms Dendrobium takadui (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide;

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