Dendrobium platybasis
Dendrobium platybasis Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 165.
Type: Kloss s.n. (Launch Camp, c. 0 ft.) (holo BM).
Synonyms:
- Ceraia platybasis (Ridl.) M.A.Clem., Telopea 10, 1 (2003) 292
Stems flattened, widened at the basal 4 internodes, with a sharp longitudinal median keel along each of the flattened sides, to 30 cm long, the flattened basal part to 3.5 cm by 5 mm. Leaves linear, curved, 4 by 0.3 cm, apex acute. Inflorescences arising in fascicles from the leafless upper part of the stem. Floral bracts lanceolate, apex acuminate. Pedicel and ovary 0.6 cm long, slender. Flowers c. 1 cm across. Dorsal sepal ovate, 0.5 cm long, apex acute. Lateral sepals triangular, 0.2 mm wide, apex acute; mentum curved, obtuse. Petals narrowly linear, about as long as the dorsal sepal. Lip obcuneate, clawed, 1 by 1 cm, claw broadly obtriangular-obovate, with a thick, fleshy median keel provided with two grooves.
(after Ridley, 1916).
Not recorded.
Epiphyte in swamp forest. Altitude 50 m.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua (Timika Mimika Regency).
Warm growing epiphyte.
Not recorded.
Should be compared with Dendrobium macfarlanei.
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Dendrobium platybasis
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