Dendrobium herbaceum Lindl. 1840 SECTION Herbacea TYPE for the Section
Photos © by Pankaj Kumar and The Flowers of India Website
Photo © by Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Herbaceous Dendrobium
Flower Size .2 to .3" [.5 to .8 cm]
Found in India, Bangladesh, Assam, and the Andaman Islands at elevations of 600 to 1300 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, erect, branching, narrowest at the base, grooved with age, shiny dark brown stems carrying 1 to 3, apical, linear-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, short, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence.
Similar to D georgei but this one has a thickening stem but no pseudobulb, longer stems up to 40" [to 100 cm] long, longer and thicker leaves, the inflorescence arising from the terminal or lateral nodes of the stem and carrying yellow flowers.
Synonyms Callista herbacea (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium ramosissimum Wight 1851
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 drawing good; Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification & Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing good; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok/photo hmm; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing fide; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 Photo good;
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