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Dendrobium nanum

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Species of orchid

Dendrobium nanum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Dendrobium
Species: D. nanum
Binomial name
Dendrobium nanum
Hook.f.

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.

References

  1. "Dendrobium nanum Hook.f. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  2. http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/orchid
Taxon identifiers
Dendrobium nanum


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