Dendrobium ramificans J.J.Sm. 1904 SECTION Aporum

Inflorescence Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Many Branched Dendrobium

Flower Size

Found in Sulawesi and the Moluccas in secondary forests on trres along roadsides and at forest edges at elevations of 280 to 900 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with strongly branching flattened stems carrying many, laterally flattened, 2 rowed, thick leaves that blooms in the fall

Synonyms Aporum ramificans (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996;

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