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Dendrobium uncipes
Dendrobium uncipes J.J.Sm., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 2, 3 (1912) 72; Nova Guinea 12, 1 (1913) 41, t. 12, fig. 31.
Type: Gjellerup 568 (holo BO).
Synonyms:
- Katherinea uncipes (J.J.Sm.) A.D.Hawkes, Lloydia 19 (1956) 98.
- Epigeneium uncipes (J.J.Sm.) Summerh., Kew Bull. (1957) 265.
- Sayeria uncipes (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 468.
An epiphytic herb. Pseudobulbs ovoid, c. 8-angled, 1.65 by 1 cm, brownish-yellow, 2-leaved at apex. Leaves fleshy-coriaceous, shortly petiolate, ovoid, narrowed and unequally bidentate at apex, about 3 by 1.5 cm, dark green. Inflorescence erect, longer than the leaf, about 3-flowered; peduncle 3.6 cm long, somewhat verrucose above; bracts triangular, acute, concave, 3.7 mm long. Flowers small. Dorsal sepal oblong-ovate, bidentate at apex, 10 by 6 mm, minutely furfuraceous-punctate on outer surface; lateral sepals obliquely oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 8.25 by 8.5 mm; mentum subsaccate, compressed, 5.3 mm long. Petals uncurved, falcate, oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, minutely erose on margins, 8.25 by 2.4 mm. Lip shortly clawed, strongly 3-lobed, 6.3 by 12.7 mm; side-lobes spreading, narrowly elliptic, subacute; midlobe bifid with a blunt mucro, the sinus, with each lobule resembling a smaller side-lobe; callus fleshy, 3-ridged, half length of lip. Column 3 mm long; foot incurved, 5 mm long.
(after Cribb, 1983).
Flowers fleshy, yellow-brown with a whitish mentum.
Epiphytic in lower montane forest. Altitude 900 m.
New Guinea.
Papua (Jayapura Regency); Papua New Guinea (Sandaun Province).
Intermediate growing epiphyte.
June. Flowers last up to three months (fide Spence 1997).
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Latouria
- Species Dendrobium uncipes
- Cribb, P.J. 1983. Kew Bull. 38: 300, map 6.
- Spence, P.J. 1997. Lasianthera 1: 171, fig. 8, pl. 3B.
Dendrobium uncipes J.J.Sm. is allied to Dendrobium aberrans Schltr. and Dendrobium amphigenyum Ridl.. It is approached in size by young plants of both, which like many Latouria species will flower when still quite small. In its flower structure it is closer to Dendrobium amphigenyum, differing in having narrower side-lobes to the lip and distinctively coloured flowers.
(after Cribb, 1983).
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Dendrobium uncipes
Dendrobium uncipes J.J.Sm., flowers, inflorescence, cult. Phil Spence, photo D. Tittmus s.n., from Papua New Guinea, locality not known
Dendrobium uncipes
Dendrobium uncipes J.J.Sm., drawing J.J. Smith, based on Gjellerup 568