Dendrobium gracilicolle
Dendrobium gracilicolle Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16 (1919) 112.
Type: Kempter s.n. (Kaiser Wilhelmsland, area behind Vanikoro) (holo B, lost).
Synonyms:
- Diplocaulobium gracilicolle (Schltr.) W.Kittr., Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30 (1984
Rhizome very short. Pseudobulbs crowded, 1-leaved, at the base fusiform, upper part long and slender, total 12-17 cm long, near the base 0.4 cm wide. Leaves narrowly linear, 20-25 by 0.3-0.4 cm, apex minutely unequally bilobulate. Inflorescences 1-flowered. Pedicel and ovary 3 cm long. Flower c. 5 cm across. Sepals in basal part lanceolate, upper part filiform, 3.3 cm long; mentum conical, c. 0.3 cm long, obtuse. Petals in basal part obliquely linear-lanceolate, in upper part filiform, a little shorter than the sepals. Lip panduriform, 1 by 0.35 cm, with two keels extending from the base to halfway the terminal lobe, the keels papillose in basal part, subcrenulate towards the apex, between the keels with a swollen median line, starting at c. 1/3 above the base, extending to c. 1/3 below the apex; terminal lobe with a very short claw, the blade suborbicular-elliptic, 0.33 cm wide. Column short; column-foot slightly incurved, ligulate, 0.3 cm long.
(after Schlechter, 1919).
Not known.
Not known.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua New Guinea (Sandaun Province).
Not known.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Diplocaulobium
- Subsection Mekynosepalum
- Species Dendrobium gracilicolle
Dendrobium gracilicolle Schltr. should be easy to recognize by the very long and narrow leaves; its position in subsection Diplocaulobium is questionable..
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Dendrobium gracilicolle
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