Dendrobium shearmanii Schuit. & de Vogel

 Dendrobium shearmanii Schuit. & de Vogel, Malesian Orchid J. 4: 111 (- 114; fig. 11 - 12) (2009).

Dendrobium shearmanii Schuit. & de Vogel; Photos by Jeffrey Champion

its native range is Papua New Guinea.

Latinh Name: 

Dendrobium shearmanii Schuit. & de Vogel

Synonym:

No

English Name:

Shearman's Dendrobium (Australian Botanist original collector of species current)

Description: 

with clustered, narrowly conical ovoid, enveloped by several sheaths and carrying a single, erect, more or less curved, vewry narrowly linear, semi-terete, almost subulate apically leaves taht blooms in the spring on an erect, peduncle 2 cm long,  2.2 cm long, ovarall, gradually tapering towards the apex, single flowered inflorescence.  

Distribution:

New Guinea.

Ecological:

Epiphyte in lowland rainforest. Altitude 250–300 m. 

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

1.3 cm.

Cultivation:

Warm growing epiphyte.

Type:

Collector Team:

s.n. s.n.

Locality:

Papua New Guinea, southern Highlands Province, Libano River

Collection Date:

Nov 2008

Type Herbaria:

holotype LAE

isotype L

Leiden cult. 20031791 (P. Shearman) (holo LAE; iso L)

Distribution Of Types:

Papua New Guinea (New Guinea, Papuasia, Asia-Tropical)

Type Remarks:

Cultivated at the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, no 20031791