Species Information - Cylindrolobus aporoides

Cylindrolobus aporoides (Lindl.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 444

Type: Cuming s.n. (Philippines) (holo K)

Synonyms:

• Pinalia aporodes (Lindl.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. (1891) 678
• Dendrobium aporoides (Lindl.) Merr., Sp. Blancoan. (1918) 113
• Eria aporoides Lindl., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 3 (1859) 60
• Aporum incrassatum Brongn. in Duperrey, Voy. Monde, Bot. (1829) 204, t. 42, fig. B (non Blume)
  - Type: ?
• Dendrobium brongniartii Kraenzl. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV. 50. II. B. 21 (1910) 210
• Aporum incrassatum Brongn. in Duperrey, Voy. Monde, Bot. (1829) 204, t. 42, fig. B (non Blume)
  - Type: ?
• Aporum incrassatum Brongn. ex Lindl., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 3 (1859) 60 (non Blume, nec Brongniart)
• Epidendrum equitans Blanco, Fl. Filip. (1837) 645 (non G.Forst.)
  - Type: not designated
• Eria incrassata (Brongn.) Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 21 (1925) 165
• Eria soronensis Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9 (1911) 286
• Cylindrolobus soronensis (Schltr.) Brieger in Schltr., Orchideen, ed. 3, I/A (1981) 664
• Aporodes soronensis (Schltr.) W. Suarez & Cootes, Austral. Orch. Rev. 73, 5 (2008) 33
• Dendrobium suaveolens Kraenzl. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV. 50. II. B. 21 (1910) 191 (non Schltr.)
  - Type: Beccari 241
• Grastidium suaveolens (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Lasianthera 1 (1997) 112
• Grastidium suaveolens (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Lasianthera 1 (1997) 112

Rhizome short, creeping. Stems ascending, to 25 cm long, not very densely many-leaved. Leaves laterally compressed, triangular, to 3 by 0.8-0.9 cm, apex rather obtuse. Inflorescences arising from the leaf axils, 1-flowered, 1-2 cm long, peduncle-scales 2-3, linear. Floral bract linear. Flower widely opening, sweetly fragrant, delicate. Median sepal oblong, 1 cm long, apex acute. Lateral sepals 1 cm long, apex acute; mentum short, rounded, obtuse. Petals thinner, lanceolate, apex acute. Lip 3-lobed, papillose, with 3 parallel lamellae; lateral lobes minute, semioblong, acute; mid-lobe ovate-oblong, obtuse. Column rather long, stelidia rounded; column-foot very short. Anther tightly affixed to the narrow filament. (After Kraenzlin, 1910, as Dendrobium suaveolens Kraenzl.).

Note: The only Eria in New Guinea with laterally flattened leaves and as such easily recognised.

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