Species Information - Dendrobium spinuliferum

Dendrobium spinuliferum Ormerod, Austrobaileya 7 (2005) 189, fig. 5.

Type: L.J. Brass 12051 (holo: AMES).

Synonyms:

Epiphytic herb. Rhizome short. Roots several, terete, c. 0.1 cm thick. Stems bifoliate, narrowly clavate, to 6.5 by 0.3 cm. Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate, c. 3.7 by 0.7 cm; apex acute. Inflorescences subterminal, one (-two?) flowered, c. 0.5 m long; floral bracts cupular, broadly ovate, c. 0.2 cm long, with acute apex. Flowers resupinate. Pedicel and ovary terete, apically obconically dilated, c. 2 cm long, glabrous. Median sepal ovate- elliptic, c. 1.4 by 0.7 cm; apex acute. Lateral sepals ovate-deltate, c. 1.5 by 1.2 cm wide, forming with the columnfoot a c. 0.8 cm long bluntly conical mentum; apex acute. Petals oblong-lanceolate, acute, c. 1.35 by 0.4 cm. Lip 3-lobed, broadly clawed, widely flabellate-obdeltate; hypochiIe I.7 by 2 cm with the c. 8 mm wide with lateral lobes irregularly erose-truncate apically; keels three, rather low, separated, each broadly grooved above, the lateral ones each terminating in a line of spinuliform projections and also linked along the outer edges with a line of similar projections which also occur occasionally on the veins of the sidelobes; epichile stiffly flexible, transversely elliptic-reniform when spread, c. 0.5 by 1 cm, with irregular margin, its apex decurved, acute. Column short, subconical, c. 0.3 cm long; column foot 0.75—0.8 cm long.
(after Ormerod, 2005)

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