Dendrobium nanum
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Dendrobium |
| Species: | D. nanum
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Dendrobium nanum is a species of orchid in the genus Dendrobium[1] 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.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dendrobium nanum Hook.f. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
- ^ http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/orchid
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