Diplocaulobium magnilabre P.J.Cribb & B.A.Lewis 1991 SECTION Diplocaulobium
TYPE Drawing photo/TYPE Drawing By © Lewis & Cribb 1991
Common Name The Wide Lip Diplocaulobium
Flower Size
Found in the Solomon Islands in primary montane rain forests at elevations around 370 to 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with swollen near the base , yellow green, pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear, witha well defined mid rib, minutely and unequally bilobed apically, narrowing below into the clasping base leaf that blooms on a terminal, short, single flowered inflorescence with a linear-lanceolate floral bract and carrying lemon-yellow turning salmon pink with age flowers with darker lemon yellow apices, a yellow lip with purple dotd down the center and a purple marked column
Synonyms Dendrobium magnilabre (P.J.Cribb & B.A.Lewis) Schuit. & Peter B.Adams 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing/photo fide ;
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