Dipodium purpureum

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Dipodium purpureum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Cymbidieae
Genus: Dipodium
Species:D. purpureum
Binomial name
Dipodium purpureum
J.J.Sm [1]

Dipodium purpureum is an orchid species that is native to Borneo. The species was formally described in 1910 by Dutch botanist Johannes Jacobus Smith. [2]

Borneo island

Borneo is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra.

Johannes Jacobus Smith was a Dutch botanist who, between years 1905 to 1924, crossed the islands of the Dutch East Indies, collecting specimens of plants and describing and cataloguing the flora of these islands. The standard botanical author abbreviation J.J.Sm. is applied to plants described by J.J. Smith.

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References

  1. "Dipodium purpureum J.J.Sm". The Plant List version 1.1. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  2. "Dipodium purpureum J.J.Sm., Icon. Bogor.: t. 304 (1910)." World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 29 January 2014.