Dendrobium caliculi-mentum R.S.Rogers

 Dendrobium caliculi-mentum R.S.Rogers, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. S. Austral. 1925, xlix. 261.

Dendrobium caliculi-mentum R.S.Rogers, Photos Jeffrey Champion 

Family:

Orchidaceae.

Synonym Name: 

Dendrobium altomontanum Gilli 

Dendrobium lompobatangense J.J.Sm. 

Dendrobium rhododiodes P.Royen 

Pedilonum caliculi-mentum (R.S.Rogers) Rauschert 

Pedilonum lompobatangense (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert

VietNam Name:

English Name:

The Calyx-Like Mentum Dendrobium

Description: 

Vines are drooping, thin, branch-top, branching, erect, lanceolate, sharp, hard, blooming into very short flower clusters, arising at any time. During the year from the apex near the top there are 4-6 flowers into a conical cluster.

Distribution:

New Guinea, Solomon Is., Sulawesi.

Ecological:

Grows in a mossy, cloudy forest at an altitude of 850 to 2600 m.

Flowering times:

Flowering throughout the year.

Cultivation:

Flowering throughout the year.

Type: 

Lane-Poole 265 (New Guinea, Owen Stanley Ra.).

Ref:

orchidspecies.com

ipni.org

powo.science.kew.org