Finding
SITF has determined this plant to be Dendrobium albayense, not lunatum (Aug 2024). Both D. albayense and D. lunatum have purple-striped sepals and petals, but the lip of lunatum is distinctly different from that of albayense. Dendrobium lunatum ias named for the half-moon shape of the unilobed lip. The lip of albayense fits this plant much better and the crest is distinctly two cuneate lumps, both better fits to D. albayense. D. albayense is about 1 cm in N.S. and D. lunatum is only .5 cm. This flower measures 1.1 cm. Plant habit, size, etc., all are an excellent fit to D. albayense.
Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 32.5cm long x 3.2 cm wide
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: multiple
Leaf Margin: smooth
Leaf Shape: lanceolate, flattened
Pseudobulb Distance: tightly clumped
Pseudobulb Root Tip: green
Inflorescence Overall Length: 0.3 cm long x 0.1 cm wide
Inflorescence Arrangement: single flowered
Flower Natural Spread Length: 0.7
Flower Natural Spread Width: 1.1
Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.5
Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.4
Lateral Sepals Length: 0.5
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.4
Petals Width: 0.2
Judging Center: Great Plains Judging Center
Award Number: 20243580
Award Date: May 04, 2024
Awarded As: CBR
Nine slightly cupped flowers and 7 buds on 16 inflorescences to 0.1 cm wide x 0.3 cm long, pale yellow, flowering sparsely along the shoot with reduced scales that cover the nodes opposite rudimentary leaves, resembling a terminal inflorescence to 0.4 cm wide x 10 cm long, sympodial epiphyte growing on a cork slab 14cm wide x 36cm long with a pad of sphagnum moss, plant measures 50cm wide x 36cm long, longest growth 3.2cm wide x 32.5cm long, semi-pendulous, rigid stems, flattened, leaves lanceolate, rigid, dark green, sharply pointed at apex; sepals and petals pale yellow; sepals with five burgundy veins; petals with three burgundy veins; lateral sepals form mentum at base of lip; lip lunate shaped, pale yellow, central callus 0.2 cm wide x 0.3 cm long, pale yellow, darker centrally, side lobes pale yellow with burgundy venation; column very pale yellow blushed pale burgundy basally, anther cap very pale yellow, white margins, pink spot centrally; substance heavy, texture crystalline; species native to the Philippines; ID by SITF _____________.