Dendrobium coplandii
Dendrobium coplandii (F.M.Bailey) Rupp, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 56 (1945) 125.
Type: Copland King s.n. (E. Coast New Guinea).
Synonyms:
- Bulbophyllum coplandii F.M.Bailey, Queensland Agric. J. 17 (1906) 232.
- Diplocaulobium coplandii (F.M.Bailey) P.F.Hunt, Kew Bull. 26 (1971) 178.
Rhizome creeping. Pseudobulbs crowded, 1-leaved, ellipsoid, angular, 1-1.5 by 0.7 cm. Leaves erect, elliptic, 1-1.2 by 0.5 cm. Inflorescences 1-flowered. Flower c. 1 cm high. Dorsal sepal c. 0.8 cm long, apex acuminate; mentum c. 0.5 cm long. Lip 3-lobed below the middle, apparently with two divergent keels between the lateral lobes, which converge near the base of the midlobe, on the claw of the midlobe with a long median lamella; lateral lobes obliquely triangular, obtuse-subtruncate, in front crispate-undulate; midlobe a little more than half the total length of the lip, linear-spathulate, the long claw with irregularly crenulate-crisped margins, the short blade subcordate, apex acute. Column-foot c. 0.5 cm long.
(after Rupp, 1945, mainly after the illustration).
Not known.
Not known, probably in the lowlands.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua New Guinea (Oro Province)
Not known.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Diplocaulobium
- Subsection Goniobulbon
- Species Dendrobium coplandii
Dendrobium coplandii (F.M.Bailey) Rupp is a poorly known but apparently rather characteristic species, especially because of its very small size. It is perhaps most similar to Dendrobium cyclobulbon Schltr., but differs in the distinctly 3-lobed lip with different keels.
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Dendrobium coplandii
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