Species Information - Dendrobium ledifolium

Dendrobium ledifolium J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 18 (1935) 37, pl. 8, fig. 20

Type: Docters van Leeuwen 10197 (holo L, iso BO).

Synonyms:

• Cadetia ledifolia (J.J.Sm.) W.Kittr., Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30 (1984

Rhizome short. Stems crowded, conical, grooved, 0.75 cm by 2.6 mm, 1-leaved. Leaves lightly recurved, lanceolate, 1.85-3.5 by 0.5 cm, carnose, apex very shortly bidentate, apiculate. Inflorescences terminal from the leaf axil as well as subterminal below the abaxial side of the leaf, 1-flowered; peduncle 0.46 cm long. Pedicel and ovary 1 cm long, 6-ribbed. Flower c. 0.8 cm across. Dorsal sepal ovate, 0.43 cm by 2.4 mm, apex acute. Lateral sepals obliquely broadly ovate-triangular, 0.43 cm by 3.6 mm, apex obtuse, apiculate; mentum 0.38 cm long, 1.8 mm wide, obtuse, retuse. Petals obliquely linear, slightly falcate, slightly widened at the base, 0.5 cm long, in the middle 0.5 mm wide, apex acute. Lip clawed, 3-lobed at the base of the blade, including the claw 0.77 long, claw linear-oblong, 0.4 cm long, the basal 1 mm adnate to the column-foot, papillose inside at the base, the blade 0.38 by 0.43 cm; lateral lobes patent, obliquely cuneate-trapezoid, 0.14 by 0.18 cm, rounded; midlobe broadly obreniform, 0.27 by 0.55 cm, very fleshy, apex minutely ciliolate, in the sinus with a very short obtuse apicule. Column 0.18 cm long, margins minutely papillose, stelidia tooth-like, incurved, papillose, filament triangular, incurved; column-foot 0.38 cm long, pubescent inside.
(after Smith, 1934).

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