• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Dendrobium nutantiflorum A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller; Dendrobium jerdonianum Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dendrobium jerdonianum Wight
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : In partly exposed places
• Flower, Fruit : March-May
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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 nutans. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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