• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dendrobium barbatulum Lindl.
• Vernacular name : Vella-itthil (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Epiphytic. Occasional in forests of Western Ghats
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Collection Nos : CJS 10307, CJS 12581, HFP 2621
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : All disticts of Maharashtra
  • Tamil Nadu : Theni district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Dendrobium barbatulum. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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