Species Information - Dendrobium correllianum

Dendrobium correllianum A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller, Lloydia 20 (1957) 119 (nom. nov.).

Type:

Synonyms:

• Dendrobium tricolor Kraenzl., in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV. 50. II. B. 21 (1910) 187 (non Pers.).
  - Type: Micholitz s.n. (Milne Bay, Mita 650-800 m) (holo HBG, iso HBG).
• Grastidium correllianum (A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Lasianthera 1 (1997) 69.

Rhizome short. Stems crowded, rigid, flexuose, leafy throughout, 70-80 cm long. Leaves ovate-oblong to oblong, 2.5-6.5 by 1.5-2.5 cm, thick coriaceous, folded, apex obtuse, minutely bilobulate. Inflorescences as numerous as the leaves, few-flowered. Flowers c. 5 cm across. Dorsal sepal oblong-lanceolate, 2.5 cm by 7 mm, keeled, apex acuminate. Mentum as broad as the lateral sepals, rounded, bilobed. Petals ligulate, 2.5 cm by 5 mm, strongly contorted, apex subacute. Lip 3-lobed, strongly revolute, in outline rhombic, 0.8-1 by 0.7-0.8 cm, inside densely covered with papillae, with a thick median basal keel extending to near the middle; lateral lobes oblong, acute, front margin elegantly lobulate and denticulate; midlobe triangular, margins undulate, denticulate, apex acute. Column very short, stelidia large, lobulate, filament very short.
(after Kraenzlin, 1910).

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