Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium Section Grastidium
Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium section Herpetophytum
Next Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Latouria
Dendrobium minimiflorum
Dendrobium minimiflorum Gilli, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84, B (1980 publ. 1983) 29, fig. 17.
Type: Gilli 567 (holo W).
Synonyms:
Rhizome long, creeping, roots elongated, filiform, flexuose, glabrous. Stems branching, slender, terete, to 100 cm long, many-leaved. Leaf sheaths glabrous. Leaves erect-patent, linear-lanceolate, 1.5-3 by 0.3-0.4 cm, coriaceous, apex obtuse. Inflorescences 1-flowered, with a cucullate basal sheath. Pedicel and ovary 0.5 cm long, strongly curved. Flower 0.5 cm long. Sepals lanceolate, 0.4 cm long, apex obtuse. Petals obliquely falcate, narrowly oblanceolate-spathulate, hardly shorter than the sepals, glabrous, apex obtuse. Lip 0.25 by 0.3 cm. Column 0.25 cm long.
(after Gilli).
Flower white.
Epiphyte in montane forest. Altitude 2650 m.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua New Guinea (Enga Province).
Cool growing epiphyte.
February.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Herpetophytum
- Species Dendrobium minimiflorum
The published description and illustration of this species are exceptionally poor and probably misleading.
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Dendrobium minimiflorum
Dendrobium minimiflorum Gilli, drawing A. Gilli in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84, B (1980 publ. 1983) 29, fig. 17, based on Gilli 567 (holotype W)