Prev Taxon: Genus Dendrobium section Diplocaulobium
Dendrobium humilicolle
Dendrobium humilicolle Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58 (1923) 98 (nom. nov.).
Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 6a, 3100 ft.) (holo BM).
Synonyms:
- Diplocaulobium humile Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London
Pseudobulbs crowded, 1-leaved, cylindrical-conical in basal third, slender in apical two thirds, 3 cm long. Leaves linear, 5 by 0.2 cm, apex acutely bilobulate. Inflorescences terminal, 1-flowered; spathe lanceolate, 0.6 cm long, acute. Pedicel and ovary 2 cm long, very slender. Flower c. 5 cm across. Sepals triangular at the base, long caudate upwards, 3 cm long; mentum 0.3 cm long, obtuse. Petals linear at the base, filiform upwards. Lip oblong, 0.5 by 0.15 cm, with 3 wavy keels converging towards the apex, apex rounded. Column short, stelidia erect, tooth-like, filament linear. Anther conical.
(after Ridley, 1916).
Flower white, lip with a purple patch on each side and yellow keels.
Epiphyte in hill forest. Altitude 950 m.
New Guinea (endemic).
Papua (Timika Mimika Regency).
Intermediate growing epiphyte.
Not recorded.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Dendrobiinae
- Genus Dendrobium
- Section Diplocaulobium
- Subsection Cadetioides
- Species Dendrobium humilicolle
Dendrobium humilicolle Schltr. is possibly a relative of Dendrobium cadetioides Schltr.
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Dendrobium humilicolle
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