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Aporum hainanense is an orchid species identified by (Rolfe) Rauschert in 1983. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium hainanense.
ORIGIN: This epiphytic species is native to China on the island of Hainan in the south in broad leaved forests at elevations of 300 to 1700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This epiphytic species is native to China on the island of Hainan in the south in broad leaved forests at elevations of 300 to 1700 meters. It is a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing plant with rigid, ascending, cylindric, compressed, slightly falcate, not branched, many noded, leafy throughout canes bearing many subcylindric, almost subulate, slender, thickly fleshy, obtuse apically leaves and blooms in the earlier fall on a short, single flowered inflorescence that arises from near the apex of the cane.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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