Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Fugacia
Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium Section Grastidium
Next Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Herpetophytum
Dendrobium trichosepalum
Dendrobium trichosepalum Gilli, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84, B (1980 publ. 1983) 30, fig. 19.
Type: Gilli 479 (holo W).
Synonyms:
- Grastidium trichosepalum (Gilli) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Lasianthera 1 (1997) 114.
Stems pendulous, straight, terete, branching, long, 1-2 mm diameter. Leaf sheaths glabrous. Leaves erect-patent to subpatent, narrowly linear-lanceolate, 4.5-10 by 0.4 cm, verruculose-rough, apex obtusely and unequally bilobulate. Inflorescences short, 2-flowered, spathe consisting of a semicircular 3 by 4 mm lower sheath and a lingulate to sublanceolate, 0.7-1 cm by 2-3 mm upper sheath. Pedicel and ovary 0.7-1 cm long. Flowers c. 8 cm across. Sepals at the base lanceolate, in upper part filiform, 4-5 cm by 0.2-0.3 mm; mentum short, obtuse. Petals similar to the sepals, 1 mm wide at the base. Lip sublanceolate to sublinguiform, 1 by 0.4 cm, inside sparsely pilose, margins densely fimbriate.
(after Gilli).
Flower white, the filiform part of the sepals and petals yellow.
Pendulous epiphyte high up in montane forest. Altitude 2950 m.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua New Guinea (Enga Province).
Cool growing epiphyte.
February.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Grastidium
- Species Dendrobium trichosepalum
The published description and illustration of Dendrobium trichosepalum Gilli are exceptionally poor and are probably misleading.
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Dendrobium trichosepalum
Dendrobium trichosepalum Gilli, drawing by Paul Ormerod, based on the holotype Gilli 479 (holo W).
Dendrobium trichosepalum
Dendrobium trichosepalum Gilli, drawing A. Gilli in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84, B (1980 publ. 1983) 30, fig. 19, based on Gilli 479 (holotype W)