Diplocaulobium tropidophorum (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes 1957 SECTION Goniobulbon Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Keel Carrying Diplocaulobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 700 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome giving rise to cylindrical, narrowing towards the apex, 4 to 6 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect, elliptic-ligulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the early summer on an apical, compressed, .2 to .32" [5 to 8 mm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence.

Schlecther states that the flowers are white with yellow crests on the lip which also has red marble graining to the lower half.

Synonyms *Dendrobium tropidophorum Schltr. 1912

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

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