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Orchid Species: Aporum serra

Kew currently accepted name is Dendrobium aloifolium

Aporum serra is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1830. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium aloifolium.
Genus
Aporum (Aporum.)
Grex
serra
Parents
Species
Author
Lindl.
Year
1830
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ORIGIN: Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea and the Philippines in lowland and hill forests from sea level to 600 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with upright in youth, pendulous with age stems, leafy below and the apical section covered with leafy racts that soon fall off leaving bundles of dry bracts from which the flowers emerge, carrying laterally flattened, acute, distichous, diminishing towards the apex, imbricate, often purplish leaves that blooms in the spring on the leafless, fractiflex, 2 to 4 [5 to 10 cm] long, apical portion of the stem with the successively single flowers well spaced out inflorescence arising from the tufty nodes along the leafless elongate stem.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.18 inches [4mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Aporum Aporum cochinchinense 1983 (Ridl.) Rauschert
Add+ Aporum Aporum lobbii 2003 M.A.Clem.
Add+ Aporum Aporum micranthum 1844 Griff.
Add+ Callista Callista aloifolia 1891 (Blume) Kuntze
Add+ Callista Callista micrantha 1891 (Griff.) Kuntze
Add+ Dendrobium Den cochinchinense 1896 Ridl.
Add+ Dendrobium Den serra 1858 (Lindl.) Lindl.
Add+ Oxystophyllum Oxystophyllum macrostoma 1843 Hassk.
Add+ Dendrobium Den aloifolium 1861 (Blume) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Add+ Aporum Aporum aloifolium 1981 (Blume) Brieger in F.R.R.Schlechter
Add+ Macrostomium Macrostomium aloifolium 1825 Blume
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Den. aloifolium 'Travis Charles Kramer' (1994)
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