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Orchid Species: Dendrobium purpureum

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Dendrobium purpureum is an orchid species identified by (Raf.) M.R.Almeida in 1832.
Genus
Dendrobium (Den.)
Grex
purpureum
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Raf.) M.R.Almeida
Year
1832
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ORIGIN: Found in the the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Caroline Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu as a small to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte from coastal lowlands to montane forests at elevations of sea-level to 1150 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A small to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte from coastal lowlands to montane forests at elevations of sea-level to 1150 meters with clustered, cylindrical to spindle-shaped, erect, curved or pendulous, grooved with age, slightly swollen basally, yellow green to purple stems that have silvery sheaths carrying several, apical, lanceolate, dark green, deciduous leaves that alternate along the stem in 2 rows and blooms at most any time of the year with spring as the main time on a 1 [2.5 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with the semi-closed flowers held in a cluster arising on leafy and leafless stems.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.5 to 0.8 inches [1.3 to 2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dendrobium Den wolterianum 1912 Schltr.
Add+ Chromatotriccum Cht wolterianum 2002 (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Pedilonum Pedilonum purpureum 1981 (Roxb.) Brieger in F.R.R.Schlechter
Add+ Pedilonum Pedilonum wolterianum 1983 (Schltr.) Rauschert
Add+ Callista Callista purpurea 1891 (Roxb.) Kuntze
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Den. purpureum h.f. album 'Peppermint Cream' (2 awards in 2012) Den. purpureum h.f. album 'Frank' (2013) Den. purpureum 'Peppermint Crème' (2012) Den. purpureum h.f. album 'Großräschen' (2012) Den. purpureum h.f. album 'Peppermint Crème' (2012) Den. purpureum h.f. album 'FA' (2010) Den. purpureum 'Marlow Orchids' (2009) Den. purpureum 'Marlow's Purple Haze' (2009) Den. purpureum h.f. album 'Gwo Bao' (2006)
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