New Guinea spp.

Oceania Orchids
Darryl and Alison Smedley

NEW GUINEA & ISLAND SPECIES

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004 Dendrobium sp. Sect. Aporum $30 Unidentified sp. Seed ex Torricelli Mts, West Sepik Province PNG. Intermediate

007 Pholidota sp. $30 Unidentified sp. Seed ex Torricelli Mts, West Sepik Province PNG. Intermediate

011 Grastidium sp. $30 Unidentified sp. Seed ex Torricelli Mts, West Sepik Province PNG. Intermediate

025 Dendrobium gracilicaule x self $30 One of the forms of the sp. from New Caledonia. Similar to the local forms but more heavily textured flowers and more robust in the pseudobulb. Cool - Interm.

567 Bulbophyllum baladeanum $30 New Caledonian endemic with green or yellow flowers with sometimes a suffusion of red. Pseudobulb and leaf to 10cm, flowers solitary, like a miniature B.burfordense. Inter-warm, slab culture in moss.

705 Dendrobium comptonii $25 Lord Howe Island sp.sometimes called D.gracilicaule var. howeanum. Cool.

753 Diplocaulobium mekynosepalum $30 A medium size species from Misima Is. in the Louisiade Archipelago in PNG. Large spidery white flowers with brown tips, maroon and yellow labellum. Cool to intermediate.

754 Dendrobium austrocaledonicum $30 Unusual Sect. Distichophyllum sp. from PNG. Flowers solitary, white to pale orange on a medium size plant. Intermediate.

798 Dockrillia fuliginosa 'Black Pam' x self ² $35 The famous species from Lake Kutubu, PNG. Dark burgundy flowers. Cool.

816 Bulbophyllum sp. unknown $30 Seed from the Ambua area, Southern Highlands Province PNG. Cool.

820 Bulbophyllum burfordense $40 Spectacular Sect. Hyalosema species. Large tan and white 'bird's beak' flowers. Formerly B.grandiflorum. Warm.

43 Dendrobium lawesii 'Tosca' x 'DB Red/purple' $30 Two brilliant red & purple clones crossed. Easy to grow Sect. Calyptrochilus sp. Cool - intermediate.

844 Dendrobium brachypus x self $30 Funny little miniature sp. endemic to Norfolk Island. Member of the D.gracilicuale complex but with cream, peloric flowers.

847 Bulbophyllum unitubum x self $35 Beautiful and elegant sp. from Sect. Hyalosema. Large, very open brown and yellow flowers to 120mm tall. Warm.

940 Dendrobium sp. unknown Sect. Latouria $30 An unknown species from Mount Albert Edward in PNG. As such, cool growing (12500'!).

944 Diplocaulobium nitidissimum $30 One of the tallest of the diplos., to 55cm. Flowers cream, dark yellow on the tips with a white lip with purple markings, rather large for the genus. Seed from Mussau Is., PNG's most northern island. Intermediate

013 Diplocaulobium nitidissimum $30 Same sp. but this time seed ex Torricelli Mts, West Sepik Province. Intermediate.

949 Bulbophyllum sp. ex Mussau Is. $30 Described as "excellent sp., flowers to 3ins." Possibly B.unitubum. Warm.

952 Dendrobium ionoglossum $30 Spectacular PNG form of our D.nindii. Large white or pale mauve Spatulata flowers with a large lilac or mauve labellum. Seed ex cult. Port Moresby. Warm.

1067 Grastidium ostrinum $75 (Very limited) One of the top two or three of the most beautiful of the Grastidium sp. Bright purple flowers. Illustrated in Lasianthera Vol.1 No.2. Intermediate.

1070 Dendrobium brachythecum $30 Identified as one of the D.macrophyllum complex. Central Province PNG. Warm

1071 Dendrobium sp. affin. subclausum $30 Flowers yellow & orange, Sect. Calyptrochilus. Central Province PNG. Inter.

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