Your mystery plant is Dendrobium goldschmidtianum Kraenzl., a species that
had long been known as D. miyakei Schltr.
Basically Kraenzlin and Schlechter hated each other and Kraenzlin wouldn't
allow Schlechter to see the type specimen of D. goldschmidtianum.
I did an inventory of the refound Kraen
Grieg,
Dendrobium topaziacum Ames is a synonym for D. bullenianum Rchb.f. The
flowers are yellow with orange to red stripes.
The plant you've illustrated looks like D. goldschmidtianum Krl, (Syn. D.
miyakei Schltr.), which is native to Batan, (an island north of the
Philippines, about halfway to
A beautiful dendrobe was shown on our plant table at the September meeting of
the Tygerberg Orchid Group, labelled Dendrobium topaziacum.
So far, all the pictures of this species I can find, and all the descriptions,
indicate that Dendrobium topaziacum has orange flowers. I have posted up a
pictur
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