Species Information - Dendrobium codonosepalum

Dendrobium codonosepalum J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 18 (1935) 51, pl. 10, 31.

Type: Docters van Leeuwen 10402 (holo L).

Synonyms:

• Chromatotriccum codonosepalum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Orchadian 13 (2002) 493

Rhizome very short. Stems crowded, quadrangular, to more than 40 cm by 3.5 mm, internodes 0.8-1 cm long. Leaf sheaths strongly verrucose. Leaves patent, subovate-oblong, 3.3-3.7 by 1.2-1.5 cm, rigidly coriaceous, margins especially towards the apex minutely but distinctly crenulate, apex acute to subacute, long-mucronate. Inflorescences lateral from defoliated stems, racemose, sessile, very short, few-flowered. Floral bracts broad, verruculose. Pedicel and ovary 1.7 cm long, rounded triangular in cross-section. Flowers c. 3.5 cm long. Dorsal sepal adnate to the lateral sepals, 2.5 cm by 9 mm, free part 0.9 cm long; mentum conical, 1 cm long. Petals 2.1 cm by 4.3 mm. Lip when flattened 1.6 by 0.65 cm, claw for c. 0.8 cm adnate to the column-foot, apex cucullate, sparsely muriculate outside, margin long-fimbriate, the fringes to c. 3 mm long. Column 0.34 cm long; column-foot 1.1 cm long.
(after Smith, 1935).

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