Dendrobium roseostriatum Ridl. 1925 SECTION Aporum

Side View of Flower

Plant Photos by Shiva Ramli . and The Wild Orchids in Sumatra Website

Part shadeWarm Cool

Common Name or Meaning The Rose Striped Dendrobium

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Bengkulu Sumatra without locational data as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, basally terete, laterally flattened above, apically leafless stem carrying oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence arising from the leafless portion of the stem.

CAUTION I have no way of personally verifying this determination so please use with caution!!

Synonyms Aporum roseostriatum (Ridl.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001;

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