Dendrobium guamense Ames 1914 SECTION Grastidium [Bl] J J Sm 1905

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LATE EARLY

Common Name The Guam Dendrobium

Flower Size 1.1" [2.75 cm]

Found in the Marianas in filtered shade on trees or in full sun on dead trees and coral rocks at elevations below 100 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with an erect, wiry, rigid, simple canes carrying many, oblong-lanceolate, unequally bilobed apically, distichous leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a short, between the leaves on leafy stems, sometimes on leafless stems, simultaneously 2 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant, ephemeral flowers.

Synonyms Grastidium guamense (Ames) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Ferns and Orchids of the Mariana Islands Raulerson & Rinehart 1992; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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