Dendrobium cadetiiflorum
Dendrobium cadetiiflorum J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 18 (1935) 54, pl. 11, 34.
Type: Docters van Leeuwen 10261 (holo L).
Synonyms:
Stems slender, terete, in upper part slightly flexuose, rooting in basal part, 75 cm by 2-2.5 mm, internodes 1.7-2.8 cm long. Leaf sheaths as long as the internodes, covered with dark brown hairs. Leaves linear, slightly narrowing towards the apex, 3.5-5.5 by 0.34-0.5 cm, thin coriaceous, when young sparsely covered with blackish hairs, later becoming almost glabrous, apex unequally obtusely triangular-bilobulate. Inflorescences laterally from the stems, 1-flowered, very short. Pedicel 0.1 cm long; ovary 0.3 cm long. Flower c. 1 cm long. Dorsal sepal 0.7 cm by 3 mm; mentum 0.2 cm long, obtuse. Petals 0.7 cm by 1.2 mm. Lip 3-lobed, when flattened 1 by 0.44 cm, at the base adnate to the column-foot for 0.25 cm; midlobe 0.55 by 0.65 cm, very fleshy. Column 0.2 cm long; column-foot saccate, 0.2 cm long.
(after Smith, 1935).
Flower very light yellow.
Terrestrial in thin-stemmed lowland forest. Altitude 150 m.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua (Paniai Regency).
Warm growing terrestrial, keep in shade.
September.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Conostalix
- Species Dendrobium cadetiiflorum
Dendrobium cadetiiflorum J.J.Sm. is rather similar to and should be compared with Dendrobium melanotrichum Schltr. and Dendrobium striatiflorum J.J.Sm.
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Dendrobium cadetiiflorum
Dendrobium cadetiiflorum J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on Docters van Leeuwen 10261
Dendrobium cadetiiflorum
Dendrobium cadetiiflorum J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on Docters van Leeuwen 10261
Dendrobium cadetiiflorum
Dendrobium cadetiiflorum J.J.Sm., isotype specimen: Docters van Leeuwen 10261 (L)