Current Genus: Genus Dendrobium section Calyptrochilus
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Dendrobium fulgidum subsp. maritimum
Dendrobium fulgidum Schltr. subsp. maritimum Dauncey, Harvard Pap. Bot. 7 (2003) 185
Type: Feulleteau de Bruyn 395 (holo L;, photo BO)
Synonyms:
- Dendrobium maritimum J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 14 (1929) 433, pl. 68, 81.
- Type: Feuilletau de Bruyn 395 (holo L). - Chromatotriccum maritimum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Orchadian 13 (2002) 494
Small epiphyte. Stem internodes short, 0.6- 1.3 cm long. Leaves small, 2.7-3.4 by c. 0.5 cm. lnflorescences few-flowered (1- 7). Flowers large, c. 2.1 cm long; pedicel and ovary short, c. 0.8 cm long; transverse callus of the lip c. 0.42 cm from the lip base and nectary to 0.2 cm from the tip of the mentum.
(After Dauncey, 2003).
Flower bright orange to orange-red.
Epiphyte, near the sea. Altitude: low.
New Guinea (endemic).
Indonesia (Papua Barat prov., Biak-Numfor Regency,).
Warm growing epiphyte, keep in shade.
September.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Calyptrochilus
- Species Dendrobium fulgidum
- Subspecies: Dendrobium fulgidum subsp. maritimum
- Dauncey, E.A. 2003. Harvard Pap. Bot. 7 (2003) 186, fig. 7 A-J.
- Smith, J.J. 1916. Nova Guinea 12, 3: 337.
Dendrobium fulgidum Schltr. is distinguished by the short but (for a species of sect. Pedilonum), fairly lax racemes of small, bright orange flowers with a simple, flat, narrow lip.
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