Dendrobium otaguroanum

 Dendrobium otaguroanum A.D.Hawkes, Lloydia 20: 122 (1957).

Dendrobium otaguroanum A.D.Hawkes, Photo by Daniel Nolte

its native range is New Guinea.

Latin Name: 

Dendrobium otaguroanum A.D.Hawkes

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Sayeria otaguroana (A.D.Hawkes) Rauschert

English Name:

Otaguro's Dendrobium (American Orchid Enthusiast).

Description: 

With clustered, yellow, erect stems carrying 2 to 4, narrowly lanceolate to ovate leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on erect, 2.5 to 6.7 cm long, laxly 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence carrying long-lasting flowers.

Distribution:

New Guinea. 

Ecological:

In cloud forests on moss covered branches at elevations of 1500 to 2200 m as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

4.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Cool growing epiphyte.

Typus:

Type: Schlechter 19096 (syn B, lost; iso AMES, BO, G, L, NSW, S); 19673 (syn B), lost.

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/628165-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:628165-1

http://www.orchidspecies.com/denotaguroanum.htm 

http://www.orchidsnewguinea.com/orchid-information/species/speciescode/2543