Orchid Information - Genus Dendrobium section Diplocaulobium subsection Cadetioides

Genus Dendrobium Sw. sect. Diplocaulobium Rchb.f. subsect. Cadetioides de Vogel, INEDIT. Type species: Dendrobium cadetioides Schltr. Schltr.

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Plants tufted, epiphytic.Rhizome short, creeping. Pseudobulbs on a plant all of similar size and all potentially fertile, crowded on the rhizome, angular. Leaf erect, dorso-ventrally flattened, usually rather thin. Inflorescences arising in succession, with a terminal floral bract; spathe laterally compressed. Flowers very small, ephemeral, wide open, white with yellow on the lip; not turning pink to purplish to the end of anthesis. Pedicel and ovary long, slender. Sepals and petals spreading widely. Median sepal erect or recurved. Lateral sepals falcate, widely opening, erect or recurved. Petals erect or recurved. Lip either clearly divided in a hypochile with lateral lobes and an epichile, or arrow-point shaped and without a clear division of the hypochile and epichile; keels on the hypochile 3, median one straight, lateral ones slightly curved, not undulating, glabrous. Column compact, with curved column foot; clinandrium 3-lobulate; anther cap-shaped; pollinia 4.

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