Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Fugacia
Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium Section Grastidium
Next Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Herpetophytum
Dendrobium niveopurpureum
Dendrobium niveopurpureum J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 14 (1929) 415, pl. 64, 68.
Type: Bogor cult. (Schuller tot Peursum) s.n. (holo BO).
Synonyms:
- Grastidium niveopurpureum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Lasianthera 1 (1997) 93.
Stems elongated, strongly laterally compressed, subflexuose, to more than 50 cm by 5-7.5 mm, internodes 2-2.6 cm long. Leaf sheaths 0.85 cm wide, apex truncate. Leaves widely patent, oblong-ligulate, 11 by 2.7-3 cm, thin coriaceous, base amplexicaul, margins recurved, apex unequally subbilobulate. Inflorescences laterally from the stems, very short, 2-flowered, spathe to 1.1 cm long. Pedicel 0.75 cm long; ovary 0.7 cm long. Flowers c. 3 cm across, fleshy. Dorsal sepal 1.7 cm by 7.5 mm. Lateral sepals 1.9 cm by 9.3 mm, mentum c. 0.6 cm long. Petals 1.5 cm by 9 mm, apex obtuse, seemingly acute because of incurved upper margins. Lip 3-lobed, mobile, when flattened 0.9 by 1 cm; midlobe 0.38 by 0.7 cm. Column 0.6 cm long; column-foot 0.6 cm long, inside velvety-papillose.
(after Smith, 1929).
Flower pure white, lip dark purple, paler in the centre, at the base white, basal callosities with purple edges.
Not known.
?New Guinea (endemic).
Papua?.
Warm growing epiphyte?
Not known.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Grastidium
- Species Dendrobium niveopurpureum
Dendrobium niveopurpureum J.J.Sm is a pretty species with the snow-white sepals and petals contrasting 'really exquisitely' (Smith) with the purple of the lip. Described from a living specimen of unknown provenance.
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Dendrobium niveopurpureum
Dendrobium niveopurpureum J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on Bogor cult. (Schuller tot Peursum) s.n.
Dendrobium niveopurpureum
Dendrobium niveopurpureum J.J.Sm., holotype specimen: Bogor cult. (Schuller tot Peursum) s.n. (BO)