Species Information - Dendrobium vestigiiferum

Dendrobium vestigiiferum J.J.Sm., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 66 (1934) 190.

Type: Mayr 752 (syn L), sterile; 861 (syn L).

Synonyms:

• Herpetophytum vestigiiferum (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 454.

Stems slender, branching, subterete, more than 17 cm long, internodes to 1.7 cm long. Leaf sheaths longer than the internodes, at the apex with a conspicuous ovate-triangular, obtuse, transversely rugulose tooth opposite the leaf-blade. Leaves erect-patent to patent, (linear), 1.4-2.9 by 0.25-0.45 cm, thin coriaceous, margins minutely subcrenulate-crispate, apex unequally obtusely bilobulate. Inflorescences laterally from the stems, 1-flowered, very short; peduncle 0.1 cm long, peduncle-scales tubular, 0.33 cm long. Pedicel 0.23 cm long; ovary 0.25 cm long. Flower c. 0.5 cm long. Dorsal sepal 0.4 cm by 1.8 mm; mentum 0.26 cm long. Petals 0.35 cm by 1.3 mm. Lip 3-lobed, when flattened 0.43 by 0.28 . Column
0.25 cm long; column-foot 0.15.
(after Smith, 1934).

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