Dendrobium lawianum Lindl.1858 SECTION Dendrobium
Photo by © Jeewan Singh Jalal
Photo by © Jalal & Jayanth
Common Name Law's Dendrobium
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in India in moist deciduous, semi-evergreen forests at elevations of 100 to 800 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with greenish, pendulous, tapering at both ends, many noded, mostly scarious, curved to one side pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 8, distichous, sessile, lanceolate, acute, entire, glabrous, many nerved leaves that blooms in the spring arising from the nodes, on a short, single to rarely 2 flowered inflorescence.
CAUTIONGoaverts at Kew, W3 Tropicos and IPNI all put this taxon as a synonym of Dendrobium crepidatum, but it can easily be separated by the curving in one direction pseudobulbs, smaller white flowers .8" [2 cm] across, with an obscure mentum, and the differently shaped lip that is slightly clawed basally without a yellow patch and the column has 2 purple processes.
Synonyms Callista lawiana (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 drawing fide; Indian Orchids, A guide to Identification and Culture Vol II Pradhan 1979; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 as D lawianum photo fide; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 as D lawiana photo fide; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 Photo fide;
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