Dendrobium latelabellatum
Dendrobium latelabellatum Gilli, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84, B (1980 publ. 1983) 27, fig. 15.
Type: Gilli 502 (holo W).
Synonyms:
Stems erect, thick, terete, grooved, unbranched, to more than 50 cm long. Leaf sheaths glabrous. Leaves erect-patent, broadly lanceolate, 4-6.5 by 1.5-2 cm, apex oblique, subacute. Inflorescences lateral, racemose, peduncle 1.5-3 cm long, rachis 2-3 cm long, 3-7-flowered. Floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, 0.2-0.4 cm long. Pedicel and ovary 0.5-1 cm long, glabrous. Flowers 1 cm long. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate-lanceolate, 1 cm long, apex obtuse. Lateral sepals oblique; mentum conical, 0.2-0.4 cm long, obtuse. Petals lanceolate, almost as long as the sepals, apex subacute. Lip broadly rhombic-ovate, obscurely 3-lobed, 1 by 1.2 cm, with 2 subparallel basal keels, lateral lobes subtriangular to subsemiorbicular, midlobe 3-lobulate, the lateral lobules much larger than the very short rounded median lobule. Column short and thick.
(after Gilli).
Sepals and petals green, lip yellowish white. Column outside yellowish white, inside black.
In montane grassland.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua New Guinea (Enga Province).
Cool growing terrestrial, prefers light position.
February.
The published description and illustration of this species are exceptionally poor and probably misleading.
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Dendrobium latelabellatum
Dendrobium latelabellatum Gilli, drawing A. Gilli in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84, B (1980 publ. 1983) 27, fig. 15, based on Gilli 502 (holotype W).