Dendrobium roseicolor A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller 1957 TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Rose Colored Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with simple, somewhat flexuous, terete, longitudinally sulcate, leafy stem carrying erect-patent, linear, acute, unequally bilobed, glabrous leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a short, densely several flowered inflorescence with minute, triangular floral bracts and carrying erect-patent to patent, rose-colored, glabrous flowers.

Synonyms Chromatotriccum roseum M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Dendrobium roseum Schltr. 1912; Pedilonum roseicolor (A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller) Rauschert 1983; Pedilonum roseum Brieger 1981;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR Gerrman New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as D roseum drawing fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 as Pedilonum roseum drawing fide;

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