Dendrobium obchantiae Promm., Suddee & Kidyoo

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Scientific name

Dendrobium obchantiae
Promm., Suddee & Kidyoo

Clade/Class

Mesangiosperms

Group

Spermatophytes

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Dendrobium

Clade/Subclass

Monocots

Order

Asparagales

Sub Family

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Tribe

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Epiphytic herbs. Pseudobulbs cylindric or narrowly fusiform. Leaves 2–4, distichous, spreading, slightly recurved, ovate, lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 4.5–8.0 × 0.5–1.3 cm, apex unequally and shortly bilobed, each lobe acute, base expanded into sheaths, glabrous on both surfaces. Inflorescences with 1–4 subterminal and axillary racemes, 2.5–5.5 cm long, not exceeding leaves, lax, 2–3-flowered. Flowers resupinate, waxy, strongly fragrant, 1.4–1.6 cm in diameter. Sepals greenish yellow with 3 longitudinal purple veins, spreading, often recurved distally, margin entire, abaxial surface distinctly keeled. Petals pale green or greenish yellow, with 3 longitudinal purple veins, spreading, oblanceolate, apex acuminate, base truncate, margin entire, sometime slightly undulate in upper half. Labellum bright greenish yellow or dull green, recurved at apex, ovate or suborbicular and distinctly trilobed. Column green, margin entire. Pollinia 4, in 2 pairs, yellow, each pollinium narrowly elliptic. Ovary narrowly clavate, curved, glabrous, waxy, 6-grooved. Capsule green, ellipsoidal, with 3 obtuse keels, apex with scarious, persistent sepals and petals.

Habitat

An epiphytic orchid, growing on Gigantochloa ridleyi, Wendlandia tinctoria and Syzygium cumini in the mixed deciduous forest at 600–800 m elevation

Locality

Tak Province: Umphang District, near the Check Point to Thi Lo Su Waterfall

Date of collection

10/10/2014

Type specimen

Prommanut & Buddhawong 703 (holotype: BKF)