Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Fugacia
Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium Section Grastidium
Next Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Herpetophytum
Dendrobium montissellae
Dendrobium montissellae Kraenzl., in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV. 50. II. B. 21 (1910) 105.
Type: Lauterbach 750 (holo HBG, probable, s.n.).
Synonyms:
Stems slender, leafy, 50 cm long. Leaves lanceolate, 8 by 1 cm, apex acuminate. Inflorescences arising laterally from the stem opposite the leaves, 1-flowered. Flower c. 0.8 cm long. Sepals and petals cuneate-obovate, almost spathulate, concave, apex rounded. Mentum semicircular, thick. Lip obovate to almost rhombic, with a broadly linear claw, warty in front, on the disc with uncinate teeth and with raised veins and raised lines which diverge at right angles, near the apex with two additional short raised lines, apical margin serrulate, apex acute. Clinandrium with a single tooth. Anther flat, rather large.
(after Kraenzlin, 1910).
Flower yellow with purple dots, lip purple.
Presumably in lower montane forest. Altitude 900 m.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua New Guinea (Morobe Province).
Intermediate growing epiphyte.
Not known.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Grastidium
- Species Dendrobium montissellae
Dendrobium montissellae Kraenzl. is probably a member of section Grastidium, which however should normally have 2-flowered inflorescences.
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Dendrobium montissellae
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