Terminal Dendrobium is a miniature to small sized,
tree-dwelling orchid with short stems enveloped by leaf sheaths
carrying many, triangular, fleshy and deciduous leaves that are held in
two ranks. The plant blooms in the late winter, occasionally spring and
often in the summer on a short, single to 5 flowered inflorescence
arising near the tip on leafed pseudodbulbs. Flowers are small, pale
yellowish white. Dorsal sepal is ovate-oblong, 3-4 x about 1.4 mm,
3-veined, subpointed; lateral sepals obliquely ovate-triangular, about
4 mm, 3- or 4-veined, base very oblique, margin close to column, tip
pointed; mentum narrowly long, about 7 mm. Petals are oblong, about 10
x 15 mm, 1-veined. Lip is adnate to tip of column foot, somewhat
spoon-shaped, about 10 x 7 mm. Terminal Dendrobium is found in NE
India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, China, at altitudes of
800-1100 m.
Identification credit: Jambey Tsering
Photographed in Tippi, West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh.
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