Dockrillia caudiculata M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1996 SECTION Teretifolia

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

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Veined Lip Dockrillia

Flower Size .5" [1.3 cm]

Found in Papua New Guinea in hill forests at elevations of 40 to 900 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with straight stems carrying linear-terete, pendulous leaves and blooms in the winter and summer on a basal, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Dendrobium caudiculatum (M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones) Schuit. & de Vogel 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroidee Pt 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014 as Dendrobium caudiculatum photo good;

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