Diplocaulobium savannicola (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 Savanna Loving Diplocaulobium

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 200 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome giving rise to 4 angled, compressed, ovate to elliptic pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect-patent, coriaceous,ligulate, obtuse narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an apical, compressed, .24" [6 mm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence.

Schlecther states that the flowers are pale yellow with the lip carmine-red bordered in the lower half.

Synonyms *Dendrobium savannicola Schltr. 1912

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

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