Dendrobium aloifolium (Blume) Rchb.f. 1861 SECTION Aporum
Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Jaap Vermeulen and Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Flower with reflexed petals and sepals Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Common Name or Meaning The Aloe-Like Dendrobium
Flower Size .18" [4mm]
Found in Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea and the Philippines in lowland forest from sea level to 500 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with upright in youth, pendulous with age stems, leafy below and the apical section covered with leafy racts that soon fall off leaving bundles of dry bracts from which the flowers emerge, carrying laterally flattened, acute, distichous, diminish towards the apex, imbricate, often purplish leaves that blooms in the spring on the leafless, fractiflex, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, apical portion of the stem with the flowers well spaced out and only one at each site.
Synonyms Aporum aloifolium (Blume) Brieger 1981; Aporum cochinchinense (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983; Aporum lobbii M.A.Clem. 2003; Aporum micranthum Griff. 1844; Aporum serra Lindl. 1830; Callista aloifolia (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Callista micrantha (Griff.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium cochinchinense Ridl. 1896; Dendrobium lobbii Lindl. 1859; Dendrobium micranthum (Griff.) Lindl. 1859; Dendrobium serra (Lindl.) Lindl. 1859; *Macrostomium aloifolium Blume 1825; Oxystophyllum macrostoma Hassk. 1843
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D serra; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; The Orchids of the Philippinews Cootes 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002
