Species Information - Dendrobium paragnomus

Dendrobium paragnomus Ormerod, Austrobaileya 7 (2005) 192, fig. 6.

Type: G C. Stocker cult., sub P Ormerod 23 (holo: BRI).

Synonyms:

• Dendrobium sp. aff. D. gnomus, Lavarack, P.S., Harris, W. & Stocker, G., Dendrobium and its Relatives (2000) 241..

Roots filamentous, white. Rhizome short. Stems clustered, 6—10-leaved in apical half, to 3.5 by 0.6 cm thick; internodes cylindrical, 0.5—1.5 cm long. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 2.7—3.5 cm long, 1.2—0.9 cm wide; sheaths ± truncate; apex subacute. Inflorescences sessile, c. 0.3 cm long, 4-flowered, on leafless stems or below the leaves on leafy stems; floral bracts deltate-cymbiform, 0.5-0.6 by 0.4 cm; apex subacute. Flower resupinate, long lasting. Pedicel and ovary narrowly clavate, ribbed, 0.7-0.8 cm long, glabrous. Median sepal ovate-elliptic, c. 0.8 by 0.37 cm; apex subacute. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate-elliptic, c. 1.3 by 0.5 cm, forming with the column-foot a mentum c. 5 mm long; apex subacute. Petals oblong, 0.75—0.8 by 0.25 cm; apex acute. Lip obovate-trulliform, subacute; basal 1/4 concave, with fluid inside, c. 0.3 by 0.25 cm; apical 1/3 obtusely deflexed, c. 1.2 by 0.5 cm; basal part and lamina separated by a transverse septum, constriction at septum c. 0.2 cm wide; lamina c. 0.9 by 0.5 cm. Column c. 0.25 cm long; column foot appressed to ovary, c. 0.45 cm long.
(after Ormerod 2005)

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