Dendrobium herbaceum Lindl. 1840 SECTION Stachyobium

Plant in situ India Photos © courtesy of The Enchanting Kerala Website

Part Shade Warm LATESummer EARLYFall

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 700 to 1300 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with clustered, erect, branching, narrowest at the base, grooved with age, shiney dark brown stems carrying 1 to 3, apical, linear-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a short, towards the apex, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Callista herbacea (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium ramosissimum Wight 1851

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok/photo hmm;

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