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Tiny Dendrobium

Dendrobium nanum

Tiny Dendrobium
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
S. India
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dendrobium nanum is a species of orchid in the genus Dendrobium Tiny Dendrobium is a small herb with pseudobulbs ovoid, covered with basal portion of leaves and smallest dendrobium known. Leaves are 3 or 4, 3 x 1.2 cm, lance-shaped-elliptic. Tiny flowers are borne in racemes up to 8 cm. Flowers are 6-8, pinkish white; bracts 0.5 cm, lance-shaped; sepals up to 8 mm; mentum to 5 mm; lip tri-lobed, narrowed to a short stalk; lateral lobes narrow, shortly pectinate; ovary with flower-stalks up to 1 cm. Tiny Dendrobium is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.

Other Dendrobium plants

Slender Cane Orchid · Dendrobium aduncum · Ironbark orchid · White butterfly orchid · Buttercup orchid · Dendrobium albosanguineum · Dendrobium amabile · Dendrobium amboinense · Amethyst-colored Dendrobium · Dendrobium amplum · Dendrobium angulatum · Unscented Dendrobium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dendrobium nanum 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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