Dendrobium ovatum (L.) Kraenzl. 1910 SECTION Fytchianthe
Photo by © Dinesh Valke and The Flowers of India Website India Mike Website
Photo by © India Mike Website
Common Name The Ovate Dendrobium
Flower Size .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm]
Found in southwestern India in moist-deciduous and semievergreen forests at elevations of 50 to 1520 meters as a mini-miniature to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with elongate, mauve-brown, terete to often stout stems carrying many, deciduous, oblong-lanceolate, alternate, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a lateral, 6" [15 cm] long, several to many flowered, subcorymbose inflorescence arising from the side or near the apex of the stem with minute, triangular, acute floral bracts. =
Synonyms Callista ovata (L.) Kuntze 1891; Cymbidium ovatum (L.) Willd. 1805; Dendrobium chlorops Lindl. 1844; *Epidendrum ovatum L. 1753
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910; The Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 drawing ok; Indian Orchids: A guide to Identification and Culture Vol II Pradhan 1979 drawing ok; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 drawing hmm; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 Photo fide;
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