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Dendrobium pleiostachyum
Dendrobium pleiostachyum Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. (1882, II) 520.
Type: Veitch cult. (Macfarlane) s.n.
Synonyms:
- Pedilonum pleiostachyum (Rchb.f.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 462.
Stems flexuose, grooved. Leaves not known. Inflorescences many, racemose, 2-3.5 cm long, straight, densely many(?)-flowered. Floral bracts triangular, minute, reflexed. Flowers c. 1.4 cm long. Dorsal sepal triangular, 0.4-0.5 cm by 2 mm, apex acute. Mentum one and a half times as long as the free part of the lateral sepals, obliquely truncate, hardly closed in front. Petals ovate-triangular, 0.4-0.5 cm by 2 mm, margins slightly erose. Lip narrowly pandurate-oblong, 1.4 by 0.3 cm, in the basal third with a crescent-shaped call. Column with large, denticulate stelidia, filament subulate.
(after Kraenzlin, 1910).
Flower white.
Not known.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua New Guinea (South-eastern part).
Not known.
- Kraenzlin, F. 1910. Orchidaceae-Monandrae-Dendrobiinae I. In A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV.50.II.B.21: 97, fig. 5 c-d.
A poorly known species of section Pedilonum.
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Dendrobium pleiostachyum
Dendrobium pleiostachyum Rchb.f., from Engl., Pflanzenr. IV. 50. II. B. 21 (1910) 106, fig. 5 c-d