Curup Kami : Dendrobium schistoglossum Schltr.,1911

Rhizome long-creping, branching much time, to 45 cm long and about 5.5 mm in diameter. Stem 5-8.5 cm apart, to 16 cm long, the apical internode-which becomes the pseudobulb-oval and flattened, to 4.5 cm long by 2.2 cm broad in the center. leaves lanceolate, obtuse, shortly bilobed, tough, to 16 x 3.7 cm. Inflorescences in fascicle in front of the leaves, the peduncles shiny white. 

• Flowers light yellow, about 1,6 cm in diameter;
• Dorsal sepal oblong-triangular, acute, 1.1 cm long by 4 mm broad;
• Lateral sepal also acute forming a short, 3.75 mm long mentum at the base; obliquely triangular, 1.3 cm long by 7 mm broad at the base;
• Petal elliptic, acute, a little shorter than the sepals and 3.4 mm broad;
• Lip trilobed, 1.3 cm long, with three ribs in the middle, all three running parallel as far as the side lobes, the two outer ones than very wavy and diverging on the mid-lobe claw, then coming together and disappearing near the apex, the center one more or less straight, the side lobes obliquely ovate and obtuse, their inner margins erose, the mid-lobe 9 mm broad and deeply incised into irregular lobules on either side;
• Column white, placed at an obtuse angle to the ovary, 3 mm long

Name Overview: Dendrobium schistoglossum Schltr., Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 104: 31 (1911).

Distribution: W. Sumatera 42 SUM ( Endemic )

Lifeform: Pseudobulb epiphyte

Accepted Name: Dendrobium schistoglossum Schltr., Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 104: 31 (1911).

Family: Orchidaceae

Homotypic Names:

Ephemerantha schistoglossa (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh., Taxon 10: 106 (1961).

Flickingeria schistoglossa (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes, Orchid Weekly 2: 459 (1961).

Original Compiler: R.Govaerts

This name is not Accepted by: 

Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [as Flickingeria schistoglossa]

Notes: 

this specimen collected from Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia

"Schlechter compared this species with F.comatum (Bl.) A.D. Hawkes, which is quite different; J.J. Smith suggested that it is closer to Desmotrichum forcipatum Kranzl. ( =F. appendicula (Bl.) A.D. Hawkes) or F.xantholeuca (Tchb.f) A.D. Hawkes." ( Orchid of Sumatra, JB.Comber)

*( Orchid of Sumatra, JB.Comber)

*https://wcsp.science.kew.org/

December 10, 2020