• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Dendrobium crepidatum Lindl. & Paxton
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dendrobium crepidatum Lindl. & Paxton
• Vernacular name : Bechu, Nangli (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : March-May
• Collection Nos : CJS 16997, KFP 6902
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Thrissur district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Koraput district, Sambalpur district, Keonjhar district, Sundergarh district, Malkangiri district
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons.; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Matthew, K.M., 1983. The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2); Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 lawianum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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