Dendrobium pseudoaloifolium J.J.Wood 1984 SECTION Aporum

Photos by © Art Vogel

Common Name or Meaning The False Aloifolium Dendrobium

Flower Size .1 to .2" [.3 to .5 cm]

Found in Sarawak Borneo in lowlands on ridges at elevations around 100 to 300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with flattened densely leafy stems carrying many, distichous, conduoplicate and flattened, appear triangular leaves that alternate along the stem and overlap slightly and blooms in the spring on a very short, arising from the apical portion of the stem, 1 to 3 flwoered inflorescence

Synonyms Aporum pseudoaloifolium (J.J.Wood) M.A.Clem. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010

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