Dendrobium aqueum Lindl.1843 SECTION Eudendrobium

Side View of Flower Photos by © Nirupama Sriramh

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Common Name The ? Dendrobium

Flower Size 1 to 1.5" [2.5 to 3.8 cm]

Found in southern India in abandoned coffee plantations at elevations of 900 to 2200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with jointed, stout, decurved to pendulous, yellow green in youth, larger at the apex stems carrying many, spread along the stem, dark green, ovate-oblong, acute, sometimes undulate leaves that blooms in the later summer through winter on a short, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Callista aquea (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium album Wight 1851

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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