• 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 nanum Hook.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills about 1400-1600m.
• Flower, Fruit : July-April
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Mysuru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Bengaluru district (GKVK, Campus)
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Maharashtra : Nashik district, Satara district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dharmapuri district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore; 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 nanum. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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