Dendrobium heyneanum Lindl. 1830 SECTION Herbacea Photo by © Anurag Sharma and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Collection sheet and Drawing Collection sheet by © J. Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in southern India at elevations of 1400 to 1700 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with tufted, erect, flexuous, several nonded stems carrying 3 to 6, linear-lanceolate, acute, deciduous leaves with persisitent leaf sheaths below that blooms in the spring and summer on a semi-erect, very slender, , longer than the leaves, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, 5 to 9 flowered inflorescence carrying white with pinkish lip, odorless flowers

Synonyms Callista heyneana (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; A Guide to Identification and Culture, Orchids of India Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing good; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Baker 1996;

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