Dendrobium rhodostele Ridl.1893 SECTION Aporum

Plant and Flower Photo by Cloud Jungle Epiphyte's Website

Common Name The Purple Column Dendrobium

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in hill forests at elevations around 600 meters as a small to medium sized hot to warm growing epiphyte with imbricate, triangular, acute, flattened leaves that blooms on an axillary to terminal, very short, single flowered inflorescence on leafless portions of the stem

Synonyms Aporum rhodostele (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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