Dendrobium uncipes J.J.Sm. 1912 SECTION Latouria
Photo by Phil Spence
TYPE Drawing by J J Smith
LATE
Common Name or Meaning The ? Dendrobium
Flower Size .4" [1 cm] long
Found in New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations around 900 meters as a mini-mniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with ovoid, brownish yellow, 8 angled pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, erect, fleshy-coriaceous, ovoid, narrowing and unequally bidentate apically, dark green, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall on an erect, longer than the leaf, peduncle 1.44" [3.6 cm] long, somewhat verrucose above, to 3 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms; Epigeneium uncipes (J.J.Sm.) Summerh. 1957; Katherinea uncipes (J.J.Sm.) A.D.Hawkes 1956; Sayeria uncipes (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakes 1996; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #4 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #7 2011 photo fide;
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