Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.

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Name scientific

Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl. (1835)

Preferred name

Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.

Taxonomy reference

Garnock-Jones, P.J. 2014: Evidence-based review of the taxonomic status of New Zealand’s endemic seed plant genera. New Zealand Journal of Botany 52(2): 163–212.

Linked name

Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Lindl.

Original authors

Lindl.

Year published

1835

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Dendrobium cunninghamii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Dendrobium

Species

cunninghamii

Synonyms

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Dysoxylum spectabile (G.Forst.) Hook.f.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Weinmannia racemosa L.f.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

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

Description

2n = 38

Description

2n = 40

Description

2n = 40

Description

2n = 40

Description

2n = 40

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Dendrobium cunninghamii Lindl.

Description

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.