Dendrobium subpandifolium J.J.Sm. 1927 SECTION Aporum
Plant and Flower Photos by © Leicneagra and The Wild Orchids in Sumatra Website
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Common Name The Almost Dendrobium pandifolium Dendrobium
Flower Size .32" [8 mm] long
Found on the island of Bangka in Sumatra at elevations under 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with leafy in the lower half, rhomboid in crossection, dark, shiny yellow stems carrying many, spreading, laterally flattened, somewhat fleshy, linear, falcate, acute leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on short, arising from the upper leafless part of the stem, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Aporum subpandifolium (J.J.Sm.) 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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