Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Fugacia
Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium Section Grastidium
Next Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Herpetophytum
Dendrobium aromaticum
Dendrobium aromaticum J.J.Sm., Meded. Rijks-Herb. 23 (1915) 10; Nova Guinea 12, 4 (1916) 306, t. 111, fig. 200.
Type: Gjellerup 967 (holo BO).
Synonyms:
- Grastidium aromaticum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 447.
Stems elongated, in cross-section elliptic, 100 cm by 6.5 mm, internodes 2.8-4.4 cm long. Leaf sheaths with a short, broad, broadly obtuse tooth opposite the leaf-blade. Leaves patent, lanceolate, 12.5-16.5 by 2.4-4.5 cm, coriaceous, apex unequally obtusely shortly bilobulate. Inflorescences lateral from the stems, very short, 2-flowered, spathe c. 0.3 cm long. Ovary 0.8 cm long. Flowers c. 1.6 cm across, fleshy, sepals outside verrucose. Dorsal sepal 1.5 cm by 5.3 mm; mentum 0.48 cm long, obtuse, retuse. Petals 1.3 cm by 3.5 mm. Lip 3-lobed, when flattened 0.9 by 0.82 cm. Column 0.42 cm long; column-foot 0.4 cm long, thick.
(after Smith, 1916).
Flower creamy yellow, with numerous fine brown dots.
Epiphyte in hill forest near the coast. Altitude 100 m.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua (Jayapura Regency).
Warm growing epiphyte.
January.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Grastidium
- Species Dendrobium aromaticum
Dendrobium aromaticum J.J.Sm. is a robust plant, similar to Dendrobium longicaule Schltr..
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Dendrobium aromaticum
Dendrobium aromaticum J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on Gjellerup 967
Dendrobium aromaticum
Dendrobium aromaticum J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on Gjellerup 967
Dendrobium aromaticum
Dendrobium aromaticum J.J.Sm., holotype specimen: Gjellerup 967 (BO)