Dipodium paludosum

{{Short description|Species of orchid}}

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| image = Dipodium paludosum - Curtis' 122 (Ser. 3 no. 52) pl 7464 (1896).jpg

| image_caption = Illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1896

| genus = Dipodium

| species = paludosum

| authority = (Griff.) Rchb.f.{{cite web|title=Dipodium paludosum (Griff.) Rchb.f.|work=The Plant List version 1.1|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-62611|accessdate=2 February 2014}}

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Dipodium paludosum is a terrestrial orchid species that is native to south-east Asia. It occurs in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.{{cite web|title=Dipodium paludosum (Griff.) Rchb.f., Xenia Orchid. 2: 15 (1862).|work=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=62611|accessdate=2 February 2014}} The leaves up to 30 cm long and 2.5 cm wide. The axillary racemes comprise 6 to 12 fleshy flowers which are each up to 4 cm wide and are cream with purple-magenta spots.{{cite book|author1=Chin, See Chung |author2=Tan, Hugh T.W. |title=The Concise Flora of Singapore: Monocotyledons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3GxdTtEETsC&pg=PA89|year=1998|publisher=NUS Press|isbn=978-9971-69-207-0|pages=89–90}}

The species was formally described in 1851 by British botanist William Griffith who gave it the name Grammatophyllum paludosum. Griffith had collected the plant from swampy upland in Malacca, growing in association with Nepenthes species.{{cite book|title=Orchid Album: Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35713239#page/138/mode/1up|year=1893|publisher=B.S. Williams|pages=19–20}} It was transferred to the genus Dipodium by German botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in 1862.