Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium section Cadetia subsection Pterocadetia
Dendrobium cadetia
Dendrobium cadetia (Blume) J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 8, 1 (1909) 50
Type: Not designated (New Guinea).
Synonyms:
- Cadetia biloba Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1 (1849) 30
Leaves lanceolate, emarginate. Flowers usually solitary. Petals much narrower than the dorsal sepal. Mentum long, clavate, somewhat incurved. Lip with rounded lateral lobes and patent, obcordate-bilobulate midlobe.
(after Blume).
Not known.
Not known, probably in the lowlands.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua.
Not known.
Dendrobium cadetia (Blume) J.J.Sm. is only known from the exceedingly poor description, from which a positive identification cannot be made. It seems to be similar to Dendrobium versteegii J.J.Sm..
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Dendrobium cadetia
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