Dendrobium jamirusii J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb 2008 SECTION Conostalix

Photo by © Steven Chew

Common Name Jamirus' Dendrobium [Bornean Collector of the type current]

Flower Size .36 to .4" [9 to 10 mm] long

Found in Sabah Borneo in kerangas, heath and primary hill forests at elevations of 300 to 600 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, erect to spreading, simple, leafy above stems carrying densly crowded, cordate-ovate, obtuse and retuse, margins decurved to revolute, tough and stiffly coriaceous, sparsely shortly brown, ramentaceous-hairym more so on the back, mid nerve shallowly sulcate leaves with densely brown ramentaceous-hairy sheaths that blooms in the fall on a sessile, emerging from the nodes all along the leafy stem, peduncle .02" [.5 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with ovate, apiculate, single nerved, brown ramentaceous-hairy basally floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, glabrous flowers.

"Separated from all others in the section by the densely crowded, ovate, obtuse, sparsely shortly brown ramentaceous-hairy, bract-like leaves and the fleshy, oblong-ovate, abtuse, deflexed mid lobe and prominent 3 toothed fleshy, porrect callus." Wood 2014

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 drawing/photo fide

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