Species Information - Dendrobium hoftii

Dendrobium hoftii Ormerod, Checkl. Papuasian Orch. (2017) 210, 480 (fig.).

Type: Höft 2940 (holo A; iso L).

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Epiphytes?, herbaceous. Roots terete, 0.04-0.08 cm thick. Rhizome short. Stems caespitose, slender, laxly leafy, compressed elliptic in section, to 8 by 0.15-0.25 cm, 0.1 cm thick, occasionally with basally rooting branches; branches 1.2-21.0 cm long; exposed part of internodes 0.5-2 cm long. Leaves thin, linear-lanceolate, 4-7.1 by 0.4 cm; leaf sheaths tubular, smooth, finely striate, 1.6-2.6 cm long, its apex with a triangular, c. 0.2 cm long lobe; apex with 2 minute obtuse lobes differing 0.05-0.15 cm in length, with acute apex. lnflorescence 2-flowered; peduncle 0.5 cm long; basal inflorescence scales: 1st transversely oblong, 0.1-0.2 by 0.3-0.4 cm, 2nd oblong, gently upcurved, 0.4 by 0.25 cm, with obtuse apex; 3rd thin, obliquely oblong, 0.35 by 0.15 cm, with subacute apex. Pedicel and ovary subterete, 0.8-1 cm long. Median sepal linear, 4.1 by 0.4 cm; apex acute; 7-nerved. Lateral sepals at the base dilated, higher up linear, 4.1 by 0.78 cm; apex acute; 7-nerved; mentum slightly incurved, c. 0.8 cm long, with obtuse apex. Petals linear, 2.2 by 0.12 cm; apex acute; finely 5 nerved. Lip 3-lobed, 0.13 cm long ; hypochile 0.5 by 0.5 cm, lateral lobes very narrowly triangular, 0.28 cm long, with entire margins, keel plate-like, terminating on the basal half of the claw, apex acute; epichile 0.65 by 0.65 cm, the claw broad, 0.15 by 0.3 cm, with hairs on the midnerve and often on the two lateral nerves with low scattered teeth and subulate processes, the blade triangular, its margins irregularly dentate, each tooth with along subulate hair, with acute apex, midnerve above the middle with a line of long hairs, two lateral nerves with a shorter line of long hairs that flank the base of the median line of hairs. Column semiterete, slender, 0.5 cm long (0.4 cm without the anther); column foot weakly subsigmoid, 0.78 cm long, inside the apex with an oblong-elliptic cavity.
(after Ormerod, 2017)).

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