• 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 herbaceum Lindl.
• Common name : Grassy Dendrobium
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous, semi-evergreen and shola forests
• Comments / notes : Epiphytic.Often on hills to 1200m in and around sholas
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Shivamogga district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Nashik district, Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Dhenkanal district, Keonjhar district, Koraput district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Namakkal district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District, Karnataka; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
• 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 herbaceum. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.

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