Dendrobium flexile Ridl. 1896 SECTION Aporum

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Peter O'Byrne

Common Name or Meaning The Flexible Dendrobium

Flower Size .5 to .6" [1.2 to 1.5 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra on trees by rivers and in old mangroves at lower elevations to 1000 meters as a small szied, hot to warm growing epiphyte with leafy stems for half way and the distal half is leafless and carrying slender, terete, acute, close [adpressed] to the stem leaves that blooms in the fall on a short, arising from the nodes along the leafless upper half of the stem, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Aporum adpressifolium (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983; Aporum flexile (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983; Dendrobium adpressifolium J.J.Sm. 1917

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994 additional taxa; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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