Dendrobium taeniocaule Schuit., Juswara & Droissart 2016 SECTION Brevisaccata Kraenzl. 1910
Photos by Vincent Droissart/TYPE Drawing Judi Stone and PhytoKeys. (61): 47–59.; Four new orchid species from the Lengguru fold belt, West Papua, Indonesia Lina Juswara, André Schuiteman and Vincent Droissart 2016
Common Name or Meaning The Flattened, Band-Shaped Pseudobulb Dendrobium
Flower Size .4" [1 cm] wide .412" [10.3 mm] long
Found in western New Guinea in submontane forest on a thick, vertical, lichen-covered trunk of a tree at elevations around 1114 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a minutely verrucose, creeping rhizome giving rise to erect, yellowish green, elongate, bilaterally flattened, each internode narrowed towards the base; leafy throughout, except for two or three basal internodes pseudobulbs carrying 6 to 8, deep green, long-lived, patent, oblong, apex unequally bilobed, sheath much shorter than the internode leaf that blooms in the spring on an arising from the apex of the internodes in the upper part of the stem, sympodially branching with age, with up to 3 branches, each branch .12 to .32" [3 to 8 mm] long, peduncle c. .24" [c. 6 mm] long, covered with scales in the basally, single flowered inflorescence with triangular, closely appressed, apex apiculate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"This species has only one obvious close relative, which is the widespread Dendrobium viridiflorum. Uniquely in section Brevisaccata, these two species share flattened stems and abbreviated inflorescences that produce up to 3, single flowered branches in succession over a longer period. The other species in the section have terete stems and flowers produced simultaneously on elongate racemes. In addition to clear morphological differences, as indicated in the diagnosis, the two first-mentioned species also have different ecologies. While Dendrobium viridiflorum is exclusively found in mangroves and coastal forest below 200 meters, Dendrobium taeniocaule occurs in submontane forest above 1000 meters." Schuit., Juswara & Droissart 2016
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * PhytoKeys. (61): 47–59.; Four new orchid species from the Lengguru fold belt, West Papua, Indonesia Lina Juswara, André Schuiteman and Vincent Droissart 2016 photo/drawing fide;
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