Species Information - Dendrobium glaucoviride

Dendrobium glaucoviride J.J.Sm., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12 (1913) 119; Nova Guinea 12, 3 (1916) 350, t. 128, fig. 234.

Type: Gjellerup 1052 (holo BO, iso L).

Synonyms:

• Pedilonum glaucoviride (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 459.
• Chromatotriccum glaucoviride (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Orchadian 13 (2002) 494

Stems crowded, unbranched, upper part flexuose, 31 cm long, internodes to 2 cm long. Leaf sheaths verruculose. Leaves patent, ovate-lanceolate, 3.2-6.3 by 0.9-1.8 cm, coriaceous, margins near the apex minutely denticulate-fimbriate, apex acute, with a very long filiform-subulate apicule. Inflorescences lateral from defoliated stems, racemose, 0.5-0.9 cm long, subsessile, 7-11-flowered. Floral bracts ovate, 0.65 by 0.4 cm, apex acuminate, outside verruculose. Pedicel 0.5 cm long; ovary 1.3 cm long, curved, obtusely triangular in cross-section, with the pedicel sigmoid. Flowers 2.2 cm long. Dorsal sepal 0.87 cm by 5.3 mm; mentum conical, 1.25 cm long. Petals 0.8 cm by 4.5 mm, margins near apex minutely erose. Lip much shorter than the column, when flattened 1.3 by 0.8 cm, apex cucullate, subtrilobulate, in the middle serrate, laterally minutely denticulate. Column 0.28 cm long; column-foot 1.25 cm long, apical part channelled, covered with a membrane, except at the very apex.
(after Smith, 1916).

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