Claderia
(pronounced: klay-DAYR-ee-ah)
Classification
A genus of unknown affinity.
Overview
Scrambling terrestrials rooting along the length of the elongate rhizome. Fertile stems erect, clambering vertically on a support. Leaves several, pleated, lanceolate, subpetiolate, acute-acuminate. Inflorescences terminal racemes, sometimes sparsely branched, the floral bracts minute. Flowers green. Sepals and petals free, spreading, the backside of the sepals finely pubescent. Lip three-lobed, minutely saccate at the base, with a pair of low pubescent ridges to either side of the midvein. Column arching, without a foot, with narrow wings; pollinia 2, naked.
Etymology
From the Greek klados, meaning branch, and erion, meaning wool, referring to the resemblance of the plants to a branching Eria.
Distribution
A genus of two species from Thailand to New Guinea.
Care and Culture Card
See basic growing conditions and care information below.
Grow plants of Claderia in shallow bulb pans of terrestrial mixture. Provide low to medium light levels, warm to intermediate temperatures, and regular watering throughout the year. It is unknown if flowering is induced by higher light levels or by allowing the stems to grow somewhat vertically.
Literature
Seidenfaden, G. 1983. Orchid genera in Thailand XI. Cymbidieae Pfitz. Opera Bot. 72:1-123.
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