Dendrobium nanum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Dendrobium
- Species
- Dendrobium nanum
- Scientific Name
- Dendrobium nanum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dendrobium nanum
Dendrobium nanum is a species of orchid in the genus Dendrobium Tiny Dendrobium is a small herb with pseudobulbs ovoid, covered with basal portion of leaves and smallest dendrobium known. Leaves are 3 or 4, 3 x 1.2 cm, lance-shaped-elliptic. Tiny flowers are borne in racemes up to 8 cm. Flowers are 6-8, pinkish white; bracts 0.5 cm, lance-shaped; sepals up to 8 mm; mentum to 5 mm; lip tri-lobed, narrowed to a short stalk; lateral lobes narrow, shortly pectinate; ovary with flower-stalks up to 1 cm. Tiny Dendrobium is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
...Dendrobium nanum in languages:
- English
- Tiny Dendrobium
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Dendrobium anamalayanum
- Dendrobium crispum
- Dendrobium delacourii
- Dendrobium denudans
- Dendrobium diodon
- Dendrobium dixonianum
- Dendrobium elliottianum
- Dendrobium eriiflorum
- Dendrobium erostelle
- Dendrobium garrettii
- Dendrobium gopalanii
- Dendrobium hemimelanoglossum
- Dendrobium incurvum
- Dendrobium kratense
- Dendrobium microbulbon
- Dendrobium minutiflorum
- Dendrobium nanum
- Dendrobium obchantiae
- Dendrobium panduratum
- Dendrobium peguanum
- Dendrobium perpaulum
- Dendrobium porphyrochilum
- Dendrobium sinominutiflorum
- Dendrobium strongylanthum
- Dendrobium turbinatum
- Dendrobium venustum
- Dendrobium wightii
- Dendrobium zhenyuanense













