Dendrobium lumakuense J.J.Wood 2008 SECTION Crumenata

TYPE Drawing by J J Wood

Common Name or Meaning The Mt Lumaku Dendrobium

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in lower montane forests in moss at elevations around 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect to spreading, clustered, branching, very slender, leafy towards the apex stem swelling at the base into laterally compressed, oblong-elliptic to elliptic pseudobulbs carrying linear, minutely, acutely, unequally bilobed, thin textured leaves that blooms on a lateral to subterminal, arising along the branches, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising from the chaffy bracts and carrying yellow flowers stained with red and has darker red nerves.

J J Wood puts together this group of related species, D lamelluliferum, D alabense, D kurashigei, D lumakuense, D pseudokurashigei and D puberulingue which may all be different or a widely variable species. More research needs to be done to address this confusing group. .

Known only from the type to date.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid J. 1: 123 J J Wood 2008 drawing fide; 2008 Dendrobium of Borneo J J Wood 2014 drawing fide;

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