Dendrobium bullenianum is a member of the family Orchidaceae found in the Philippines and Vietnam.[2] It is named in honor of Mr. Bullen, orchid cultivator with Low & Co.'s nursery,[3] who was first in Britain get this species to flower in cultivation.[4] It is pendulous and sympodial with 1 meter long pseudobulbs of 1.5 cm thickness and deciduous leaves of 10 cm by 1.5 cm.[4] Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was the first to describe this species in 1862 in Botanische Zeitung.[5] It is found as an epiphyte in elevations up to 1,000 metres in Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Dendrobium |
| Species: | D. bullenianum
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| Dendrobium bullenianum Rchb.f.
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References edit
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- ^ "The Plant List".
- ^ a b "Dendrobium bullenianum". orchidspecies.com. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ^ Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1862). "Neue Orchideen". Botanische Zeitung. 20: 214.
- ^ a b The Orchids of the Philippines, J.Cootes p. 70 2001
- ^ Orchidiana Philippiniana Vol1 Valmayor 1984
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