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Dendrobium papuanum J.J.Sm., in L.S.Gibbs, Phytogeogr. Fl. Arfak Mountains. (1917) 120.
Type: Gibbs 5712 (holo BM).
Synonyms:
Rhizome short. Stems crowded, elongated, terete, flexuose and deeply sulcate in upper part (in dried specimen), c. 46 cm long, many-leaved, internodes 2.6 cm long. Leaf sheaths tubular, a little longer than the internodes, minutely verrucose. Leaves twisted at the base so as to lie in one plane, ovate-lanceolate, 6-7.5 by 1.2-1.9 cm, rigid, margins denticulate at apex, apex long and very sharply acuminate, long mucronate. Inflorescences arising from the nodes of leafless stems, racemose, very short, peduncle-scales with a few short tubular scales, densely c. 4-flowered. Floral bracts ovate-triangular, 0.85 cm long, apex sharply acuminate, patent. Pedicel and ovary 1.25 cm long, clavate, minutely furfuraceous-puncticulate. Flowers c. 1.4 cm long. Dorsal sepal subelliptic, 0.65 cm by 0.4 mm, concave, 3-nerved, apex obtuse. Lateral sepals with the free part ovate-triangular, 0.63 cm long, 4-nerved, front margins connate for c. 0.65 cm, apex obtuse, apiculate; mentum conical, suberect, 0.9 cm long, narrowly obtuse. Petals obliquely subelliptic-oblong, 0.65 cm by 0.27 mm, concave, 3-nerved, margins minutely erose in apical part, apex subulate-apiculate. Lip extending to the apex of the column, concave, 1.1 by 0.84 cm when flattened, base adnate to the column-foot for c. 0.4 cm, without callus, c. 5-nerved, apex cucullate, truncate, plicate, apical margin densely and shortly subulate-fringed, the 'hood' 0.37 cm deep. Column somewhat recurved, dorsally compressed, 0.26 cm long, clinandrium 3-lobulate, the median lobule curved, linear, obtuse, the lateral lobules large, quadrangular, broadly obtuse, the upper half shortly drawn out and denticulate, the lower half rounded; column-foot linear, channelled, 0.9 cm long. Anther transversely subquadrangular and slightly 6-angular in outline, 2.3 mm wide, in front drawn out, truncate and papillose. Pollinia 4, oblong, cohering in two subelliptic bodies.
(after Smith, 1917).
Flower pink.
Epiphyte in montane forest. Altitude 2100 m.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua (Sorong Regency
Cool growing epiphyte.
December.
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