SECTION Latouria [Bl.] Miq 1859

TYPE: = Latouria spectabilis Blume 1850 = Dendrobium spectabile (Blume) Miq. 1859

Synonyms *Latouria Blume 1848; Latourorchis Brieger 1981; Latourea misspell 1881; Leioanthum M A Clke3m & D L Jones 2002; Sayeria Kraenzl. 1894; Section Athecebium Royen 1979; Section Dendrocoryne Subsection Hirsuta Pfitz 1889; Section Leiotheca Kraenzl 1910; Section Sayeria Rauschert 1983; Section Superbientia Kraenzl 1910; Section Trachytheca Kraenzl 1910; Subgenus Athecebium Schltr 1912

Characterized by the close set, variably club shaped, some being stout and others elongate and slender stems carrying towards the apex of the stem leaves that do not have sheathing bases and blooms on a near terminal, few flowered inflorescence carrying fleshy flowers that have a prominent three lobed lip with a prominently raised callus.

  1. Dendrobium aberrans Schltr. 1912 Papua New Guinea

  2. Dendrobium acutisepalum J.J.Sm. 1911 western New Guinea

  3. Dendrobium alexandrae Schltr. 1912 Papua New Guinea

  4. Dendrobium amphigenyum Ridl. 1916 New Guinea

  5. Dendrobium armeniacum P.J.Cribb 1981 Papua New Guinea

  6. Dendrobium atroviolaceum Rolfe 1890 New Guinea

  7. Dendrobium bifalce Lindl. 1843 Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, the Bismark Islands, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Queensland Australia

  8. Dendrobium biloculare J.J. Sm. 1925 Western New Guinea

  9. Dendrobium brachyanthum Schltr. 1921 Palau in the Caroline Islands

  10. Dendrobium convolutum Rolfe 1906 Papua New Guinea

  11. Dendrobium crassilabium P.J.Spence 2004 Papua New Guinea

  12. Dendrobium cruttwellii T.M.Reeve 1980 eastern Papua New Guinea

  13. Dendrobium curvimentum J.J.Sm. 1917 New Guinea

  14. Dendrobium cynthiae Schuit. 2015 New Guinea

  15. Dendrobium dendrocolloides J.J.Smith 1913 western New Guinea

  16. Dendrobium engae T.M. Reeve 1979 Papua and New Guinea

  17. Dendrobium euryanthum Schltr. 1905 Papua New Guinea

  18. Dendrobium eximium Schltr. 1906 New Guinea

  19. Dendrobium finisterrae Schltr. 1912 Papua and New Guinea

  20. Dendrobium forbesii Ridl. 1886 eastern Papua and New Guinea

  21. Dendrobium geotropum T.M. Reeve 1983 Papua and New Guinea

  22. Dendrobium hodgkinsonii Rolfe 1900 New Guinea

  23. Dendrobium johnsoniae F. Muell. 1882 Papua and New Guinea

  24. Dendrobium kauldorumii T.M.Reeve 1980 eastern Papua New Guinea

  25. Dendrobium latipetalum (J.J.Sm.) Schuit. 2017 New Guinea

  26. Dendrobium laurensii J.J.Sm. 1920 New Guinea

  27. Dendrobium leucohybos Schltr. 1912 New Guinea

  28. Dendrobium macrophyllum A. Richard not Lindley or Ames 1834 Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, the Philippines, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Santa Cruz, Vanuatu and the Caroline Islands

  29. Dendrobium mayandyi T.M.Reeve & Renz 1981 New Guinea and the Bismark archipelago

  30. Dendrobium montis-yulei Kraenzl.1910 New Guinea and the Bismark archipelago

  31. Dendrobium mooreanum Lindl. 1851 Vanuatu

  32. Dendrobium neglectum Gagnep. 1950 southern Vietnam

  33. Dendrobium otaguroanum A.D.Hawkes 1957 New Guinea

  34. Dendrobium pachystele Schltr.1912 New Guinea, The Solomon Islands and the Caroline Islands

  35. Dendrobium palawense Schlechter 1914 Caroline Islands

  36. Dendrobium pleurodes Schltr. 1912 Papua New Guinea

  37. Dendrobium polysema Schlechter 1906 New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bouganville Island, the Santa Cruz Islands, and Vanuatu

  38. Dendrobium punamense Schltr.1905 Bismark and Solomon Islands

  39. Dendrobium rhodostictum F. Muell. & Kraenzl. 1894 eastern New Guinea to Bougainville Island

  40. Dendrobium rigidifolium Rolfe 1899 New Guinea

  41. Dendrobium ruginosum Ames 1933 Solomon and Santa Cruz Islands

  42. Dendrobium ruttenii J.J.Sm. 1920 Seram of the Moluccas

  43. Dendrobium setigerum Ames ex M.A.Clem. 1999-2000 publ. 1999 Philippines

  44. Dendrobium shiraishii T.Yukawa & M.Nishida 1992 western New Guinea

  45. Dendrobium spectabile (Blume) Miq. 1859 TYPE for the Section Papua & New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

  46. Dendrobium subquadratum J.J. Sm. 1908 New Guinea

  47. Dendrobium tapiniense T.M. Reeve 1980 Papua & New Guinea

  48. Dendrobium torricellense Schltr. 1905 New Guinea

  49. Dendrobium violascens J.J.Sm. 1927 Moluccas

  50. Dendrobium whistleri P.J.Cribb 1995 Samoa, Solomon Islands

  51. Dendrobium wisselense P.J.Cribb 1981 western New Guinea

  52. Dendrobium woodsii P.J. Cribb 1981 southern Papua New Guinea

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