Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Cadetia
Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium section Cadetia subsection Cadetia
Dendrobium ceratostyloides
Dendrobium ceratostyloides J.J.Sm., Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes Néerl. 19 (1908) 14; Nova Guinea 8
Type: Berger, den s.n. (Area between Geelvinkbaai and Gulf Mccluer) (holo BO).
Synonyms:
- Cadetia ceratostyloides (J.J.Sm.) Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 424.
Rhizome very short. Stems crowded, slender, gradually dilated towards the apex, 3.5-8 cm by 2.3-2.7 mm, 1-leaved. Leaves lanceolate, 4-5.5 by 0.85-0.95 cm, apex obtuse, unequally bidentate. Inflorescences terminal from the leaf axil, 1-flowered, spathe 0.25 cm long. Pedicel 0.35 cm long, glabrous; ovary 0.2 cm long, reversely muricate. Flower c. 0.7 cm across. Dorsal sepal subobovate, 0.35 cm by 2.5 mm, apex broadly acute. Lateral sepals obliquely subobovate, 0.35 cm by 2.5 mm, apex obtuse; mentum 0.2 cm long. Petals obliquely linear, 0.36 cm by 0.6 mm, apex obtuse. Lip 3-lobed, 0.5 cm long, pubescent inside; lateral lobes narrowly triangular, 0.6 mm long, acute; midlobe slightly recurved, transversely oblong, 0.1 by 0.27 cm, with a transverse basal callus. Column 0.16 cm long, stelidia broad, unequally tridentate, filament shorter, triangular-subulate; column-foot hairy at the base, 0.25 cm long.
(after Smith, 1909).
Flower pure white, column at the apex marked with purple.
Not recorded; presumably in the lowlands.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua (Manokwari Regency).
Warm growing epiphyte.
Not known.
Dendrobium ceratostyloides J.J.Sm. is closely related to Dendrobium umbellatum (Gaudich.) Rchb.f., with which it may prove to be synonymous, the main difference being in the less broad midlobe of the lip of the former.
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Dendrobium ceratostyloides
overview of Dendrobium ceratostyloides J.J.Sm.
Dendrobium ceratostyloides
Dendrobium ceratostyloides J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on ?
Dendrobium ceratostyloides
Dendrobium ceratostyloides J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on Berger, den s.n.