Dendrobium ovatum (L.) Kraenzl. 1910 Photo by © India Mike Website

Common Name The Ovate Dendrobium

Flower Size .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm]

Found in southwestern India at elevations of 50 to 1520 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with elongate, mauve-brown, often stout stems carrying many, deciduous, oblong-lanceoalte, alternate leaves that blooms in the fall on a 6" [15 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence arising from the side or near the apex of the stem

CAUTION This ID is tentative as I have no real references as to what this species should be.

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 ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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