Cadetia triquetra (Ridl.) Schltr. 1912 SECTION Pterocadetia

Side View Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Rope-Like Cadetia

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in New Guinea and Queensland Australia in lowland and lower montane forests at elevations of 100 to 900 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid, shiny, light green pseudobulbs carrying a single, darker green, elliptic, equally acutely bilobed apically leaf that blooms in the winter, summer and fall on a terminal, short, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cadetia trigonocarpa (Schltr.) Schltr. 1912; Dendrobium trigonocarpum Schltr. 1905; *Dendrobium triquetrum Ridl. 1886

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as D triogonocarpum; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as Dendrobium triquetrum; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85 as C trigonocarpa drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85; Die Orchideen lieferung 11 Schlechter/Brieger 1981 as C trigonocarpa drawing fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010 photo fide

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