Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Fugacia
Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium Section Grastidium
Next Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Herpetophytum
Dendrobium papyraceum
Dendrobium papyraceum J.J.Sm., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12 (1913) 113; Nova Guinea 12, 4 (1916) 312, t. 113, fig. 206.
Type: Bogor cult. (Branderhorst) 257 b (holo BO).
Synonyms:
- Grastidium papyraceum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 451.
Stems crowded, erect, rigid, in cross-section elliptic, towards the apex more compressed and dilated, 40 cm long, in basal part 3.3 mm, in upper part 5.8 mm wide, internodes 1.5-3 cm long. Leaf sheaths 0.65 cm, much longer than the internodes, opposite the leaf blade with a triangular tooth. Leaves lanceolate, 5.5 by 1.25-3.2 cm, papyraceous, apex unequally obtusely to acutely bidentate. Inflorescences laterally from the stems, very short, (probably 2-flowered,) spathe 0.3 cm long. Pedicel 0.8 cm long; ovary 0.25 cm long. Flowers c. 1.8 cm across. Dorsal sepal 1.2 cm by 6.5 mm; mentum 0.63 cm long, obtuse. Petals 1.28 cm by 6.4 mm. Lip 3-lobed, when flattened 0.97 by 0.8 cm; midlobe 0.4 by 0.57 cm. Column 0.5 cm long; column-foot 0.53 cm long.
(after Smith, 1916).
Sepals and petals pale yellow, white at the base, lip pale yellow, lateral lobes white, at apex violet, inside with short transverse violet stripes, midlobe white in the centre, with narrow violet margins, keel pale orange.
Epiphyte in lowland rainforest.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua (Manokwari Regency)
Warm growing epiphyte.
Not known.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Grastidium
- Species Dendrobium papyraceum
Dendrobium papyraceum J.J.Sm. is similar to Dendrobium ochranthum Schltr..
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Dendrobium papyraceum
Dendrobium papyraceun J.J.Sm., as Grastidium papyraceym (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert, photo Mark Clementx in Lasianthera 1 (1996) photo 22, based on ANBG cult. s.n. from PNG, Korombi
Dendrobium papyraceum
Dendrobium papyraceun J.J.Sm., as Grastidium papyraceym (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert, photo Mark Clementx in Lasianthera 1 (1996) photo 22, based on ANBG cult. s.n. from PNG, Korombi
Dendrobium papyraceum
Dendrobium papyraceun J.J.Sm., as Grastidium papyraceym (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert, drawing David Jones in Lasianthera 1 (1996) fig. 5, based on ANBG cult. s.n. from PNG, Korombi
Dendrobium papyraceum
Dendrobium papyraceum J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on Bogor cult. (Branderhorst) 257B