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Dipodium purpureum

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
Borneo to Maluku
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dipodium purpureum is an orchid species that is native to Borneo. The species was formally described in 1910 by Dutch botanist Johannes Jacobus Smith.

Other Dipodium plants

Dipodium ambiguum · Purple hyacinth orchid · Dipodium bicallosum · Dipodium brevilabium · Bell-flower hyacinth orchid · Dipodium conduplicatum · Dipodium elegans · Dipodium elegantulum · Leafy hyacinth orchid · Dipodium fevrellii · Dipodium fragrans · Palau Hyacinth Orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dipodium purpureum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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