Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium Section Grastidium
Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium section Herpetophytum
Next Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Latouria
Dendrobium glomeroides
Dendrobium glomeroides Ormerod, Orchadian 16 (2009) 227, fig.
Type: BW 10463 (C. Versteegh) (holo A).
Synonyms:
Rhizome and roots not seen. Stem terete, branching, art seen 18-28 by 0.09-0.30 cm; branches 7-14-leaved, 4.5-14.5 cm long; internodes 0.30-2.85 cm long. Leaves ligulate-lanceolate, 1.4-2.1 by 0.30-0.35 cm; leaf sheaths minutely rugulose striate; apex unequally obtusely to acutely bilobed to bidentate. Inflorescence 2-flowered; outer spathe 0.08- 0.1 cm long, inner spathe oblong-elliptic, 0.5 by 0.2 cm, with obtuse apex; peduncle 0.8 cm long. Pedicel and ovary terete, subclavate, 0.9 cm long. Median sepal ovate-lanceolate, 1.8 by 0.45-0.5 cm; apex acute. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate-lanceolate, 1.8 by 0.8 cm, 0.45-0.5 cm in the midle; apex acute; mentum broadly conical, obtuse. Petals obliquely ligulate-lanceolate, 1.7-1.8 by 0.25-0.3 cm; apex acute. Lip 3-lobed, ca. 1.6 cm long; hypochile c. 0.55 by 0.55 cm, with semi-obovate-oblanceolate, in front obliquely truncate lateral lobes, with a fleshy, linear, truncate median keel; epichile ovate-lanceolate, c. 1.05 by 0.35-0.4 cm, lower half with erose margins, median with a dense oblong patch of pubescence. Column 0.5 cm long; column foot 0.65 cm long.
Stem shining yellow to yellow-green when dried. Leaves becoming grey when old. Flowers dark yellow.
Young secondary forest on stony clay, rather common Altitude: 1800 m.
Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Indonesia (Papua Province, Jayawijaya Regency).
Cool growing epiphyte.
June.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Herpetophytum
- Species Dendrobium glomeroides
Dendrobium glomeroides is somewhat similar to D. juniperinum Schltr. and D. lanuginosum Ormerod in its branching pattern but the midlobe of the lip is ovate-lanceolate (not broadly ovate or suborbicular).
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Dendrobium glomeroides
Dendrobium glomeroides Ormerod. Drawing by Paul Ormerod in Orchadian 16 (2009) 227, fig., based on the type: BW 10463 (C. Versteegh).