• 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 macrostachyum Lindl.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Ephiphytic
• Flower, Fruit : April-July
• Collection Nos : HFP 1628, CJS 13325
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : All forests of Odisha
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.
• 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 macrostachyum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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