Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium section Cadetia subsection Sarcocadetia
Next Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Calyptrochilus
Dendrobium sayeri
Dendrobium sayeri Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 3 (1907) 317.
Type: Sayer s.n. (1887, Mt. Obree).
Synonyms:
- Cadetia sayeri (Schltr.) Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 424.
Rhizome very short. Stems crowded, erect, subterete, slightly thickened towards the apex, 1.5-2.5 cm by 2 mm, 1-leaved. Leaves erect-patent to erect, linear, 2-2.5 by 0.2-0.25 cm, coriaceous, apex subacute. Inflorescences terminal, 1-flowered. Pedicel and ovary 1.5 cm long, weakly triangular. Flower c. 0.7 cm across. Dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, 0.35 cm long, apex acute. Lateral sepals obliquely oblong-ovate, 0.35 cm long, apex acute; mentum 0.25 cm long. Petals linear, 0.35 cm long, apex acute. Lip 3-lobed clawed, 0.6 by 0.3 cm, claw linear at the base, papillose, with 3 calli; lateral lobes minute, tooth-like; midlobe very broadly cuneate, fleshy, glabrous, apex very broadly obtuse-truncate. Column short, stelidia almost twice as long as the filament.
(after Schlechter, 1912).
Not recorded.
Not recorded. Altitude 2500 m.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua New Guinea (Oro Province)
Cool growing epiphyte.
Not recorded.
Dendrobium sayeri Schltr. is one of several species of Dendrobium section Cadetia that currently are only known from the original description. In the present case, this description strongly suggests Dendrobium chionanthum Schltr., a common mountain species, except that the apex of the lip is emarginate in D. chionantha, while it is described as truncate in D. sayeri.
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Dendrobium sayeri
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