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Dendrobium uniflorum

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ5256719 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dendrobium uniflorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is native to the Malesia and Southeast Asia regions, in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi, Sumatra.

Description

Dendrobium uniflorum is a small to medium size, warm growing epiphyte. It has thin, semi-pendulous to erect, clumping pseudobulbs that carry many, unsubdivided, pointed fleshy leaves.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dendrobium uniflorum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.