Dendrobium gynoglottis Carr 1935 SECTION Crumenata
Drawing by Emmanuel Papadopoulos/Collection Sheet by Carr
Common Name The Female Organ Lip Dendrobium [refers to the claw of the lip that is adnate to the column foot to form a tube suggestive of a mammilian female organ]]
Flower Size
Found in Sarawak Borneo in hill kerangis forests on sand at elevations of around 900 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a somewhat flexuous, leafy towards the apex, basally cylindrical, rather flattened, 2 to 3 internodes above swelling to a flattened, thin , narrowly elliptic in cross-section pseudobulb carrying narrowly elliptic, very shortly, unequally, obtusely bilobed or oblique, rather thin textured, purplish green, tubular shethed leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on fasciles of very short, single flowered inflorescence arising from tufts of dry scales along the upper nodes of the stem and carrying white, unscented flowers with crimson markings on the outside of the petals, mentum pale orange at the base, lip with pale orange ridges.
Similar to D incurviciliatum but differs in the claw of the lip is adnate to the colukn for a much greater distance and the midlobe is quite different.
Synonyms Ceraia gynoglottis (Carr) M.A.Clem. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 photo/drawing fide
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