Common name: Grassy Dendrobium
Botanical name: Dendrobium herbaceum Family: Orchidaceae (orchid family)
Grassy Dendrobium has the smallest flowers in the Dendrobium genus. Stem
pendulous , 2-3 ft. long, and lower part of braches naked , upper with short
sheaths. Grass like leaves linear -lanceolate acuminate. Flowers racemes
terminal very short few-flowered. Flower sepals and petals linear - obtuse
3-nerved , mentum very short rounded ,lip very small narrow. Side lobes very
narrow, tips rounded , midlobe shorter ovate rugose.
| Photographed in Jharkhand |
Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar
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