Species Information - Dendrobium goilalae

Dendrobium goilalae Ormerod, Checkl. Papuasian Orch. (2017) 205, 476 (fig.).

Type: Hartley 12902 (holo A; iso CANB).

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Epiphytes, herbaceous. Roots terete, to 0.08 cm thick; stem branches rooting at the base. Rhizome not seen. Stem (fragment) slender, terete to elliptic in section, laxly leafy, 50.5 by 0.17-0.2 cm, 0.1 cm thick; branches few, to 38.5 cm long; exposed part of internodes 0.9-2.3 cm long. Leaves linear-lanceolate, thin, 5.5-9.1 by 0.3-0.35 cm; leaf sheaths tubular, finely striate, smooth, 1.5-2 cm long; apex with a triangular, 0.1 cm long lobe with acute apex; apex with 2 minute obtuse lobes differing 0.08-0.11cm in length. lnflorescence 2-flowered; peduncle 1 cm long; basal inflorescence scales: 1st transversely elliptic, 0.2-0.27 by 0.4 cm, 2nd oblong, 0.4-0.5 by 0.22-0.25 cm, with obtuse apex. Pedicel and ovary subterete, 0.8-1 cm long. Median sepal linear-lanceolate; 2.5 by 0.4 cm; apex acute; 5-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely linear-lanceolate, 2.35 by 0.5 cm; apex subacute; 5-nerved; mentum obtuse, 0.4 cm long. Petals linear, 2.2 by 0.15 cm; apex subacute; 3-nerved. Lip 3-lobed, 0.8 cm long; hypochile 0.4 by 0.43 cm, inside with few scattered projections, lateral lobes lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 0.12-0.15 cm long, with acute apex; epichile subcircular, 0.4 by 0.4 cm, its margin shallowly irregular with slender hair-like projections, upper surface with a few club-shaped hairs, those toward the apex longer; keel plate-like, at base and top gradually lowering, not reaching the apex of the hypochile. Column semiterete, 0.38 or 0.34 cm long (without anther); column foot at a right angle to ovary, c. 0.5 cm long (including the. incurved apex), the apex bent at a right angle inward, below the apex with an oblong cavity.
(after Ormerod, 2017)).

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