Species Information - Dendrobium flebiliflorum

Dendrobium flebiliflorum Ormerod, Austrobaileya 7 (2005) 187, fig. 3.

Type: G.C. Stocker cult. s.n. (holo: BRI [AQ75 1261]).

Synonyms:

Stems erect, narrowly clavate, shallowly sulcate, bifoliate, c. 18 by 0.25—0.3 cm at the base, median c. 0.4 cm wide. Leaves broadly oblong, 3—6 by 1.5—1.9 cm; apex acute. Inflorescences erect, subterminal, 2—3-flowered, up to 4.5 cm long; peduncle up to 3.2 cm long; rachis weakly zig-zag, up to 1.3 cm long; floral bracts ovate, c. 0.4 by 0.2 cm, with acute apex. Flowers resupinate. Pedicel and ovary clavate, 1.6—1.7 cm long. Median sepal broadly ovate, c. 0.7 by 0.5 cm; apex acute. Lateral sepals broadly ovate, c. 0.8 by 0.95 cm, forming with the column foot a 8—9mm long incurved-semilunate obtuse mentum; apex acute. Petals broadly oblong-subcuneate, c. 0.by 0.3 mm; apex acute. Lip 3-lobed, c.10 mm long; hypochile basal half rounded-entire, top half minutely denticulate; lateral lobes obliquely oblong, at base c. 0.6 by 0.4 mm, slowly narrowing to c. 3 mm wide; callus of three laminate keels highest at their termination at the base of the midlobe; epichile transversely elliptic-reniform, c. 0.3 by 0.6 cm, with minutely erose-denticulate margins. Column short, c. 0.35 by 0.3 cm; anther c. 0.1 cm long; column foot c. 0.8 cm long.
(after Ormerod 2005)

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