SECTION Aporum Lindley 1850

TYPE: = Aporum lobatum Blume = Dendrobium lobatum [Bl] Miq 1859

Synonyms Aporosis [Schltr] M A Clem & D L Jones 2002; Aporum [Bl] Blume 1825; Ditulima Raf. 1836; Macrostomium 1825; Orthoglottis Breda 1830; Shismoceras Presl. 1827; Section Aporopsis [Schltr] Brieger 1981; Section Hemiphylla Kraenzl. 1910; Section Holophylla Kraenzl. 1910; Section Macrostomium Bl. 1825; Section Rhopalanthe Subsect. Aporosis Schlechter 1912; Section Strongyle Lindl. 1851; Section Strongyle [Lindl.] Breiger 1981; Subgenus Aporum Kranzl. 1910; Subgenus Strongyle [Lindl] Kraenzl 1910; Subbgenus Xerobium Schlechter 1912; Subsection Strongyle [Lindley] H P Wood 2006

Characterized by the initially erect then pendulous, short to moderately long, leafy stems carrying close spaced to overlapping based, laterally flattened, usually acute tipped leaves that blooms with usually lateral with a single flower from a cluster of chaffy bracts or from along an elongate terminal leafless extension with short lived, small flowers

1. Dendrobium acerosum Lindl. 1841 Borneo, Suluwesi, Sumatra, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar

2. Dendrobium acinaciforme Roxb. 1878 Assam, eastern Himalayas, Hainan China, south central China, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Moluccas

3. Dendrobium albayense Ames 1912 Philippines and Vietnam

4. Dendrobium aloifolium (Blume) Rchb.f. 1861 Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea and the Philippines

5. Dendrobium anceps Sw. 1800 Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nicobar Islands and Vietnam

6. Dendrobium auyongii T.Yukawa 1998 Sarawak Borneo

7. Dendrobium babiense J.J.Sm.1912 Borneo

8. Dendrobium barioense J.J.Wood 2008 Borneo

9. Dendrobium basilanense Ames 1912 Philippines

10. Dendrobium bilobulatum Seidenf. 1985 Thailand and Vietnam

11. Dendrobium brevimentum Seidenf. 1985 Thailand

12. Dendrobium capitellatoides J.J.Sm. 1917 Bangka Sumatra

13. Dendrobium chrysotainium Schltr.1910 Sulawesi

14. Dendrobium compressistylum J.J.Sm. 1926 Sumatra

15. Dendrobium concavum J.J.Sm. 1905 Moluccas

16. Dendrobium crucilabre J.J.Sm. 1927 Kalimantan Borneo

17. Dendrobium cuneatum Schltr. 1906 Moluccas and Sulawesi

18. Dendrobium curviflorum Rolfe 1895 Myanmar, Thailand and Laos

19. Dendrobium cyrilianum P.O'Byrne, Gokusing & J.J.Wood 2015 Sabah Borneo

20. Dendrobium dalatense Gagnep. 1930 southern Vietnam

21. Dendrobium diaphanum Schltr. 1910 Sulawesi

22. Dendrobium distichum [Presley]Rchb.f 1877 Philippines

23. Dendrobium flexile Ridl.1896Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra

24. Dendrobium grande Hook.f. 1890 The Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo

25. Dendrobium hainanense Rolfe 1896 Hainan China

26. Dendrobium hymenopetalum Schltr. 1911 Sumatra

27. Dendrobium indivisum [Blume] Miq. 1859 Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the Molucca Islands

28. Dendrobium jennae P.O'Byrne 1996 Sulawesi

29. Dendrobium judithiae P.O'Byrne 1999 Sulawesi

30. Dendrobium keithii Ridl 1896 Thailand, India?

31. Dendrobium kentrophyllum Hook.f. 1890 eastern Himalayas, Laos, Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra

32. Dendrobium kiauense Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920 Kalimantan and Sabah, Borneo

33. Dendrobium korthalsii J.J.Sm. 1917 Kalimantan Borneo

34. Dendrobium kuyperi J.J.Sm. 1914 Sumatra

35. Dendrobium leonis Rchb. f. 1864 Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sumatra and Borneo

36. ! Dendrobium lobatum (Blume) Miq. 1859 TYPE for the Section; Borneo, Java, Malaysia and Sumatra

37. Dendrobium lobulatum Rolfe & J.J. Sm. 1905 Sumatra, West Java, the Moluccas and Borneo

38. Dendrobium lohanense J.J.Wood 2011 Borneo

39. Dendrobium longiramense J.J.Wood & P.O'Byrne 2010 Kalimantan Borneo

40. Dendrobium lunatum Lindl. 1858 Palawan Philippines

41. Dendrobium macfarlanei F. Muell. 1876 New Guinea

42. Dendrobium macraporum J.J.Sm. 1912 Sulawesi

43. Dendrobium mannii Ridl. 1896 Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam

44. Dendrobium marivelense Ames 1908 Philippines

45. Dendrobium merrillii Ames 1908 Philippines on Luzon, Mindoro and Samar Islands

46. Dendrobium mindanaense Ames 1913 publ. 1914 Philippines

47. Dendrobium moluccense J.J.Sm. 1914 Moluccas

48. Dendrobium montis-hosei J.J.Wood 2008 Borneo

49. Dendrobium nathanielis Rchb.f. 1857 Assam India, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

50. Dendrobium optimuspatruus P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm. 2003 Malesia

51. Dendrobium paitanense J.J.Wood 2010 Borneo

52. Dendrobium parciflorum Rchb.f. ex Lindl.1859Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Thailand, Laos, China, Vietnam and the Philippines

53. Dendrobium patentilobum Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920 Sabah, Borneo

54. Dendrobium platyphyllum Schltr. 1906 Sumatra, Borneo

55. Dendrobium pleasancium P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm. 2003 Borneo

56. Dendrobium prostratum Ridl.1896 Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra

57. Dendrobium pseudoaloifolium J.J.Wood 1984 Sarawak Borneo

58. Dendrobium quadrilobatum Carr 1929 penninsular Malaysia and Borneo

59. Dendrobium ramificans J.J.Sm. 1904 Sulawesi and the Moluccas

60. Dendrobium reflexibarbatulum J.J.Sm.1927 Borneo

61. Dendrobium reflexitepalum J.J.Sm. 1921 Java and Sumatra

62. Dendrobium reginanivis P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm. 2003 Sulawesi

63. Dendrobium rhodostele Ridl.1893 Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo

64. Dendrobium rhombopetalum Kraenzl. 1910 southern Sumatra

65. Dendrobium rosellum Ridl. 1896 penninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Borneo and Sumatra

66. Dendrobium roseonervatum Schltr. 1904 Sumatra

67. Dendrobium roseostriatum Ridl. 1925 Bengkulu Sumatra

68. Dendrobium sabahense J.J.Wood 2008 Borneo

69. Dendrobium sagittatum J.J.Sm. 1905 Java and Sumatra

70. Dendrobium sambasanum J.J.Sm. 1909 Borneo

71. Dendrobium singaporense A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller 1957 Malaysia, penninsular Thailand, Borneo and Sumatra

72. Dendrobium smithianum Schltr. 1911 Borneo?, the Moluccas and Sulawesi

73. Dendrobium spatella Rchb.f. 1865 Assam, eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Fujian, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China, Hong Kong and Malaysia

    Dendrobium sp. 3

74. Dendrobium sphenochilum F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1894 Papua and New Guinea

75. Dendrobium subpandifolium J.J.Sm. 1927 island of Bangka in Sumatra

76. Dendrobium subulatoides Schltr. 1911 Sabah and Sarawak Borneo

77. Dendrobium subulatum (Blume) Lindl. 1830 Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Java and Sumatra

78. Dendrobium terminale Par. & Rchb.f. 1874 Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Malaysia, penninsular Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan Province of China

79. Dendrobium tetralobum Schltr. 1906 Kalamantan Borneo

80. Dendrobium thysanophorum Schltr. 1911 Sulawesi and the Philippines?

81. Dendrobium truongcuongii Aver. & V.C.Nguyen 2018 Vietnam

82. Dendrobium uncatum Lindl. 1859 southern Vietnam, western Java, Sumatra, and Sabah Borneo

83. Dendrobium vanhulstijnii J.J.Sm. 1917 Moluccas

84. Dendrobium wenzelii Ames 1915 Philippines

85. Dendrobium xanthoacron Schltr. 1906 Borneo

86. Dendrobium xiphophyllum Schltr. 1911 Kalimantan Borneo