Dendrobium uliginosum
Dendrobium uliginosum J.J.Sm., Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes Néerl. 39 (1910) 11; Nova Guinea 8, 3 (1911) 572, t. 94D.
Type: Römer, von 4 (holo BO).
Synonyms:
- Pedilonum uliginosum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 464.
- Chromatotriccum uliginosum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Orchadian 13 (2002) 496
Stems (only leafless fragment described) terete, flexuose, 9 mm wide, internodes 1-2 cm long. Inflorescences lateral, racemose, 1.5-2.4 cm long, rachis thick, angular, densely c. 20-flowered. Floral bracts patent, oblong-subovate, 0.6 by 0.38 cm, apex minutely erose, broadly obtuse. Pedicel and ovary 2 cm long. Flowers c. 2.8 cm long. Dorsal sepal obovate-oblong, 1.6 cm by 7 mm; mentum 1.6 cm long, closed apical part c. 0.5 cm long. Petals obliquely spathulate, 1.5 cm by 6.3 mm. Lip clawed, spathulate, 2.25 cm long, when flattened 1.1 cm wide, base for 0.4 cm adnate to the apex of the column-foot, between the claw and the blade with a V-shaped lamella, at apex shortly incurved, with erose margins. Column 0.33 cm long; column-foot 1.58 cm long.
(after Smith, 1911).
Flower violet-red.
Epiphyte in lowland swamp forest.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua (Merauke Regency
Warm growing epiphyte.
September.
Dendrobium uliginosum is related to Dendrobium lawesii, but appears distinct because of the only shortly incurved apex of the lip.
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Dendrobium uliginosum
Dendrobium uliginosum J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on von Römer 4
Dendrobium uliginosum
Dendrobium uliginosum J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on von Römer 4