Dendrobium subserratum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Monanthos Schlechter 1905 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Almost Serrate Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1300 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to simple, glabrous, compressed, densely leafy stems carrying erect, glabrous, linear to linear-ligulate, obtuse, unequally bilobed apically, contracted below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence carrying a non-resupinate flower.

Schlechter states that the flowers are yellowish pink, the lip is brown red towards the margin and the centerr and apex are yellow

Synonyms Monanthos subserratus (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

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

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