Species Information - Dendrobium praemorsum

Dendrobium praemorsum Schuit. & de Vogel, Malesian Orchid J. 4 (2009)109, fig. 9

Type: van Royen & Sleumer 8017 (holo L)

Synonyms:

specimens), 1-leaved. Leaf oblong to narrowly oblong, 1.3–2.5 by 0.4–0.5 cm; base short cuneate; apex obtuse, minutely bilobulate, mucronate, mucro longer than the lobules. Inflorescences adaxial and abaxial; solitary or in asynchronous pairs. Main basal bract obliquely tubular, c. 0.4 cm long. Peduncle c. 0.4 cm long. Median sepal narrowly ovate to ovate-oblong, 0.38–0.54 by 0.14–0.25 cm; apex obtuse, patent; 3-nerved. Lateral sepals ovate-oblong, 0.42–0.58 by 0.2–0.29 cm; free part (i.e. without the part forming the mentum) obtuse, patent; 3-nerved; mentum cylindrical, straight, almost entirely closed, 0.45 cm long, with obtuse apex. Petals patent-porrect, linear-lanceolate, 0.46–0.58 by 0.11–0.13 cm; margins entire; apex acute; 1-nerved. Lip 3-lobed, spathulate, glabrous, 0.73–0.98 cm long; hypochile clawed, 0.55–0.68 by 0.49–0.59 cm across the lateral lobes, its claw linear, 0.3–0.38 by c. 0.1 cm, entirely adnate to the column-foot, the lateral lobes subrectangular, 0.14–0.18 by 0.16–0.22 cm, the apical margins erose, erect, the apex truncate; epichile broadly obcuneate, 0.21–0.28 by 0.28–0.34 cm; apical margins erose; apex broadly rounded-truncate, apiculate; callus triangular in outline, extending from the base of the epichile to a little below the middle, short pubescent-papillose, apparently with a pocket-like concavity at the base (artifact?). Column 0.1–0.16 cm long, glabrous; wings short, triangular, obtuse; clinandrium entire, median with a short obtuse tooth; column-foot 0.45 cm long, glabrous. Anther cucullate, 0.08 cm wide; apex slightly papillose; pollinia 0.06 cm long. Ovary and pedicel glabrous c. 1.5 cm long; 3-winged. Fruit elliptic in outline, 3-angular in cross-section, pointing downwards by the strongly curved pedicel. (after Schuiteman & de Vogel, 2009)

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