Common name: Tiny Dendrobium • Marathi: जांभळी दांडेअमरी Jambhli dande amri
Botanical name: Dendrobium microbulbon Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Tiny Dendrobium is a small epiphytic rare orchid native to peninsular
India, which can be often seen growing out of bark of trees. Pseudobulbs
are small, crowded, ovoid. The plant has 2 leaves which
are linear-oblong and pointed. Flowering stem is leafless, solitary,
erect, 4-8 flowered. Bracts are nearly as long as the stalk. Flowers are
white, tinged with purple. They are small, about 1-1.2 cm across, stalked.
Lateral sepals are obtuse, petals narrowly nearly spoon-shaped, mentum
long incurved , lip thick, side lobes broad acute, midlobe small round
crenulate, disk with a channelled ridge thickened at the end .
Medicinal uses: Tiny Dendrobium is used in stomachache by the
tribal people of Gujarat.
Identification credit: Dinesh Valke
| Photographed at Purandar fort, Pune. |
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