Dendrobium beamanianum J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb 1993
SECTION Conostalix Kraenzl. 1910
Top Left Photo by © Anthony Lamb other Photos by © Peter O'Byrne
TYPE Drawing by © Linda Gurr 1997
Common Name The Beaman's Dendrobium [American Botanist [died 2015], wife and son in Borneo current]
Flower Size 1 to 1.12" [2.5 to 2.8 cm]
Found in Sabah Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 1700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect to spreading stem carrying many, linear-ligulate, acutely unequally bilobed, densely black hirsute sheaths the lowermost becoming glabrous leaves that blooms in the summer on an emerging from below the top of the leaf sheath opposite the blade, .2 to .6" [.5 to 1.5 cm] long, usually successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, acute, yellowish as long as to slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying mostly non-resupinate [see photo lower left above] flowers with pale brown to pale creamy yellow sepals with pale orange to orange brown veins, pale brown to creamy yellow petals a pale yellow to pale brown lip with a white keel and brownish yellow epichile and a pale green column.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Plants of Mt Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 Wood 1997 drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Dendrobium of Borneo J J Wood 2014 drawing/Photo fide
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