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Dendrobium tridentiferum
Dendrobium tridentiferum Lindl., London J. Bot. 2 (1843) 237.
Type: Not designated.
Synonyms:
- Callista tridentifera (Lindl.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. (1891) 655.
- Grastidium tridentiferum (Lindl.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 453.
Stems stout, tall, leafy, internodes 2.5-3 cm long. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 12 by 2.5 cm, rather fleshy, apex acute, obliquely bilobulate. Inflorescences short, 2-flowered. Flowers c. 2 cm across. Dorsal sepal oblong, keeled, apex acute. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate, apex acute; mentum very short, rounded. Petals oblong-lanceolate, apex acute. Lip 3-lobed, on the disc with a wart-like callus and a median keel; lateral lobes obliquely ovate, falcate, acute; midlobe ovate, acute.
(after Kraenzlin, 1910).
Flower perhaps white.
Not known.
New Guinea (endemic).
Not known.
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- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Grastidium
- Species Dendrobium tridentiferum
- Kraenzlin, F. 1910. Orchidaceae-Monandrae-Dendrobiinae I. In A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV.50.II.B.21: 184.
Dendrobium tridentiferum Lindl. is one of the earliest species of section Grastidium described, but as yet also one of the most obscure ones.
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Dendrobium tridentiferum
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