Dendrobium rosellum Ridl. 1896 SECTION Aporum

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Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Peter O'Byrne.

Plant Photo by Hisanori Takeuchi and his Orchids of the World Website

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Common Name The Pink Spotted Dendrobium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Penninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Borneo and Sumatra in hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1100 meters as a medium to just large sized, hot growing epiphyte with branched stems carrying many, close set, distichous, imbricate, equitant, conduplicate, compressed, green to tinged red with sun, ovate, acute apically leaves attenuate below into the leaf bearing sheaths that blooms in the spring fall and winter on the apical, leafless portion of the stem with a short, single flowered infloresence that hold the flowers against the leafless stem

Synonyms Aporum rosellum (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Penninsualar Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; The Dendrobiums Wood 2006; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 6 2010; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 photo fide

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