Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Herpetophytum
Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium section Latouria
Next Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Microphytanthe
Dendrobium informe
Dendrobium informe J.J.Sm., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12 (1913) 110; Nova Guinea 12, 3 (1916) 321, t. 116, fig. 212.
Type: Gjellerup 825 (holo BO; iso L, possible, Bogor cult. s.n., no coll., no loc.).
Synonyms:
- Sayeria informis (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 467.
A small epiphytic plant. Pseudobulbs clavate, sulcate, 20 cm long, 1-leafed at apex. Leaf coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, 22 by 4.8-5.8 cm. Inflorescence lateral, short, 9-flowered, 5.8 cm long; bracts semi-orbicular, 1.3 cm broad. Flowers fleshy, 1.1 cm across, densely black-spotted on outer surface of connivent sepals and ovary. Dorsal sepal ovate, rounded at apex, 8.5 mm long; lateral sepals triangular, obtuse, 1 cm long; mentum broadly conical, broadly truncate. Petals ovate, subulate-apiculate, spotted, 6.75 mm long. Lip thickly fleshy, subentire, broadly clawed at base, broadly obovate above, slightly 3-lobed and very obtuse at apex, 9.7 by 8.5 mm; callus central, minute, sub-obsolete. Column very short; column foot 7.7 mm long, at an obtuse angle to the ovary.
(after Cribb, 1983).
Flowers white, soon becoming yellowish.
Epiphyte in forest on limestone. Altitude 300 m.
New Guinea.
Papua (Jayapura Regency
Warm growing epiphyte.
November.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Latouria
- Species Dendrobium informe
- Cribb, P.J. 1983. Kew Bull. 38: 284, map 6.
- Smith, J.J., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, s/'er. 3, 2 (1920) 71 (Dendrobium laurensii J.J.Sm.)
Dendrobium informe J.J.Sm. is characterised by a single-leaved pseudobulb and flowers finely spotted on the ovary and sepals with brownish black and with a subentire lip bearing an obscure callus only. A prominent callus is a feature of sect. Latouria and it may be that this species is based on an abnormal, possibly somewhat peloric, specimen. It is similar to the Moluccan species Dendrobium laurensii J.J.Sm. and may represent a variant of that or be a closely allied species.
(after Cribb, 1983).
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Dendrobium informe
Dendrobium informe J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on Gjellerup 825
Dendrobium informe
Dendrobium informe J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on Gjellerup 825