Dendrobium niveolabium (Orchidaceae, section Grastidium), a new Dendrobiinae species from Papua, Indonesia
Author
Naive, Mark Arcebal K.
Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China. & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Author
Handoyo, Frankie
Kemang Golf 2 DC- 5, Kemang, Pratama Bekasi 17116, West Java, Indonesia.
Author
Ormerod, Paul
7 P. O. Box 8210, Cairns, Qld., 4870, Australia.
Author
Champion, Jeffrey
Omahku di Awan, Jl. Raya Candi Kuning, Candi Kuning 2, Bedugul, Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia.
text
Phytotaxa
2021
2021-03-16
490
3
271
277
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.490.3.5
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.490.3.5
1179-3163
5754280
Key to
Dendrobium niveolabium
and its allied species
1. Leaves less than
4 cm
long, basally twisted so that the upper surfaces lie in an almost flat plane....................................................
2
- Leaves
5–13 cm
long, not basally twisted or lying in an almost flat plane........................................................................................
3
2. Lip with midkeel forming a flap-like lamella on the hypochile; midlobe transversely elliptic ..............................
D. patentissimum
- Lip with midkeel forming a low lamellate ridge on the hypochile; midlobe cuneate, apex with a retrorse barb ................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................
D. igneum
3. Lip with midlobe suborbicular to suborbicular-hexangulate..............................................................................................................
4
- Lip with midlobe obovate-obcordate..................................................................................................................................................
5
4. Leaves linear-lanceolate,
0.95–1.5 cm
wide; lip with midkeel crispate-undulate on hypochile; midlobe apiculate, broadly crossed by 6–8 transverse ridges ..........................................................................................................................................
D. hollandianum
- Leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate,
1.25–3.20 cm
wide. Lip with midkeel straight on hypochile, its upper surface with regular shallow notches; midlobe subacute, each side of midline with short transverse, low ridges......................................
D. papyraceum
5. Leaves
10–13 cm
long by
3–5 cm
wide; flowers pale yellow, lip red margined with black-red sidelobes; dorsal sepal
15 mm
long; lip
9 mm
long, midlobe 5.5–6.0 mm wide .................................................................................................................
D. ochranthum
- Leaves to
7 cm
long by
1.5 cm
wide; flowers pale yellow, lip pure white; dorsal sepal
12 mm
long; lip
13 mm
long, midlobe
8–9 mm
wide .....................................................................................................................................................................
D. niveolabium