Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Fugacia
Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium Section Grastidium
Next Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Herpetophytum
Dendrobium obcuneatum
Dendrobium obcuneatum F.M.Bailey, Queensland Agric. J. 17 (1906) 231.
Type: Copland King s.n. (E. Coast New Guinea) (holo BRI, iso BO, K).
Synonyms:
- Grastidium obcuneatum (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Lasianthera 1 (1997) 93.
Stems (only fragment described) slightly laterally compressed, more than 18 cm by 5 mm, many-leaved. Leaf sheaths with brown margins. Leaves oblong to obcuneate, 5-6 by 1.2-1.6 cm, prominently veined, apex obliquely bilobulate. Inflorescences lateral, 1- or perhaps 2-flowered. Pedicel and ovary 1-1.2 cm long. Flowers 1.8-2 cm long. Sepals linear, 5 mm wide, apex subobtuse; mentum slightly curved, obtuse. Petals similar to the sepals, but a little shorter and narrower. Lip much shorter, strongly incurved, hiding the column, margin deeply fringed.
(after Bailey).
Flower probably white.
Not known, in the lowlands.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua New Guinea (?Milne Bay Province).
Warm growing epiphyte?.
Not recorded.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Grastidium
- Species Dendrobium obcuneatum
Dendrobium obcuneatum F.M.Bailey is a very imperfectly described species.
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Dendrobium obcuneatum
Dendrobium obcuneatum F.M.Bailey, isotype specimen: Copland King s.n. (E. Coast New Guinea) (BO)
Dendrobium obcuneatum
Dendrobium obcuneatum F.M.Bailey, isotype specimen: Copland King s.n. (E. Coast New Guinea) (BO)