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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Lindl.
Lindl.
1835
ICN
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
species
Dendrobium cunninghamii

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cunninghamii

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Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.

Plant to 150 cm. long, often much less. Stems cane-like, tending to be locally thickened towards base and there to 7 mm. diam. in large plants; lateral branches ∞, coming off at wide angle, ± drooping; bare parts mostly c. 2 mm. diam., bright yellow and polished. Lf-sheaths tubular, minutely papillose, overlapping, covering all younger stems; lamina c. 3–5 cm. × 3 mm., narrow-linear, dark at joint with sheath. Rhizome stem-like, giving off ± branched roots. Infls 1-6-fld, produced a few nodes back from lfy tip, as short, slender laterals; floral bracts tubular, short, inconspicuous; pedicel very slender, longer than ovary. Per. c. 2–2.5 cm. diam., glab., white, lip and column us. partly rose-pink to purplish or green. Sepals elliptic, spreading, tips ± reflexed; laterals connate under labellum and adnate to column-base, giving characteristic shape to bud. Petals slightly broader. Labellum shorter, distinctly 3-lobed; lateral lobes small, often coloured, inclined to stand parallel to one another; mid-lobe white, broad, subacute, minutely crenulate; disc with 4–5 pale-coloured, low, longitudinal ridges terminating just above short claw and near to a coloured knob (nectary) at end of column-foot. Column about as long as its foot, cylindric, very narrowly winged.

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Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
Winika cunninghamii (Lindl.) M.A.Clem., D.L.Jones & Molloy
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.

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Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
[Not available]
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
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Egmont-Wanganui
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
[Not available]
North Auckland
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
[Not available]
North-western
Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.
[Not available]
Ruahine-Cook

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21a773b4-e60a-4199-be3a-f650d883c61b
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
9 April 2015
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