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Aporum planibulbe is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Rauschert in 1983. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium planibulbe.
ORIGIN: Found in Thailand, peninsular Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines at elevations around 700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect stems, the upper flower bearing part usually leafless, the middle stem is leaf-bearing and the basal internode is swollen, ovoid, 4 angled pseudobulb carrying purple flushed, elliptic, rounded apically, gradually narrowing below into the basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall through early spring on very short, single flowered inflorescence arising along the apical, leafless portion of the stem and carrying very short lived, fragile flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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