Dendrobium pogoniates Rchb.f. 1886
Drawing by Linda Gurr
Common Name Painted Dendrobium [refers to the Bold magenta nerves on the lip]
Flower Size .4 to .48" [1 to 1.2 cm] wide
Found in Java and Kalimantan Borneo in lowland dipterocarp forests at elevations below 300 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, wiry, slender throughout, leafy stem carrying narrowly elliptic, minutely obtuse to subacutely unequally bilobed, thin textured leaves that blooms on racemose, arising on the previous years leafless stem, peduncle .2 to .6" [.5 to 1.5 cm] long, provided with amplexicaul, acute to acuminate, scarious, exterior prominently nerved, rachis .32 to .4" [.8 to 1 cm] long, 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence with ovate-oblong, obtuse to apiculate, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale yellow to ivory colored, non scented flowers with an orange lip.
Reichenbach compared the habit of this species to a miniature D fimbriatum. D stuposum is also considered similar but D pogoniates has a mentum that forms a much longer retuse cylinder, the lip has a ong projecting midlobe with much longer fringes and hairs and there is no hippocrepic callus at the top, being quite even. The column does not have a long groove in front under the stigmatic hollow, but it is divided at the base into 2 shanks.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Dendrobium of Borneo Wood 2014 drawing fide
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