Pandurate Dendrobium is a miniature sized, cool
growing orchid found growing on trees and rocks. Stem is flattened,
compressed, 2.5 x 0.5 cm, sheathed with scales. Leaves are up to 40 x 6
mm, linear-lanceshaped, pointed. Flowers are white with pinkish tinge,
4-5, in about 3 cm long at branch-ends, flexuous raceme. Bracts are 2.5
x 2 mm, ovate, tapering, 3-veined, dorsal sepal 5.8 x 2.1 mm,
oblong-lanceshaped, apiculate, 5-veined; lateral sepals 8.5 x 3 mm,
subsickle shapedly ovate-lanceshaped, subtapering, 5-veined. Petals are
6 x 1-2 mm, inverted-lanceshaped, apiculate, 3-veined; lip, 5 x 7 mm,
pandurate, round to obheart-shaped, rounded toothed, margins thick,
disc channelled, ending in a pink fleshy callus. Pandurate Dendrobium
is found in South India and Sri Lanka.
Flowering: May-July.
Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar
Photographed in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu.
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