Dendrobium rosellum

 Dendrobium rosellum Ridl., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 31: 268 (1896).

Dendrobium rosellum Ridl., Photo by Jeffrey Champion

Dendrobium rosellum Ridl., Photo by Alfred Ng 

 its native range is W. Malesia.

Latin Name: 

Dendrobium rosellum Ridl.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Aporum modestissimum (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem.

Aporum rosellum (Ridl.) Rauschert

Dendrobium modestissimum Kraenzl.

English Name:

The Pink Spotted Dendrobium.

Description: 

With branched stems carrying many, close set, distichous, imbricate, equitant, conduplicate, compressed, green to tinged red with sun, ovate, acute apically leaves attenuate below into the leaf bearing sheaths that blooms in the spring fall and winter on the apical, leafless portion of the stem with a short, single flowered infloresence that hold the flowers against the leafless stem.

Distribution:

Borneo, Malaya, Sumatera.

Ecological:

In hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1100 m as a medium to just large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring fall and winter.

Flower size:

10 mm.

Cultivation:

- Water once a week

- Fertilize twice a month with low concentration.

Type:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org

- powo.science.kew.org

- orchidhouseasia.com/product/dendrobium-rosellum/