Species Information - Dendrobium stipiticola

Dendrobium stipiticola Ormerod -- Austrobaileya 7 (2005) 183, fig. 1.

Type: LAE 54919 (P.F. Stevens & J.F. Veldkamp) (holo: AMES).

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Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, 0.5—0.8 cm thick. Primary stem at least 30 by 0.09—0.11 cm; branches to 7.5 by 0.1— 0.15 cm, 1.5—4 cm apart, rooting at the base and shedding the leaves in the lower half. Leaves fleshy, subfalcate-oblong; apex obtuse in lateral view, c. 0. 6 by 0.1.75 cm; leaf sheaths smooth. Inflorescences single, axillary, one-flowered, c. 1 mm long. Flowers not resupinate. Pedicel and ovary clavate, c. 0.4 cm long. Median sepal oblong-elliptic, c. 0.65 by 0.25 cm; margins involute in upper half; apex obtuse. Lateral sepals broadly ovate-elliptic, c. 0.5 by 0.3 cm; basal dilation oblong-elliptic, c. 0.25 cm long, that forms with the column foot a c. 0.3 cm long oblongoid and retrorse obtuse mentum; margins involute in apical third. Petals oblong-elliptic, c. 0.6 by 0.2 cm; apex subacute. Lip claw c. 0.3 by 0.2 cm; blade transversely elliptic-reniform, c. 0.4 by 0.6 cm; lateral lobes broadly elliptic-subquadrate to broadly rounded; midlobe minute, recessed, emarginate. Colunm semiterete, c. 0.25 cm long; columnfoot c. 0.3 cm long.
(after Ormerod 2005)

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