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Dendrobium herbaceum Lindl.
Synonym
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Callista herbacea
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Family
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Orchidaceae
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Local name
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English - Grassy Dendrobium
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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December-January
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Distribution
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India, Bangladesh and China
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Moist deciduous, semi-evergreen
and shola forests
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Uses
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They are source of tonic, astringent, analgesic, antipyretic, and
anti-inflammatory substances, and have been traditionally used as medicinal herbs in the
treatment of a variety of disorders, such as, nourishing the stomach,
enhancing production of body fluids.
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Key
botanical characters:
Epiphytic herbs; stem 30-40 cm long,
branched, terete, leafless when flowering. Leaves 3-8 cm long, narrowly
linear. Flowers white, in 4-6-flowered, 1-1.5 cm long, slender racemes from
nodes; pedicel 6-7 mm. Dorsal sepal 5 x 1.5 mm, oblong-lanceolate, acute,
3-veined; lateral sepals 4 x 1.5-2 mm, oblong, sub-acute, apiculate, falcate,
3-veined. Petals 4 x 1 mm, subfalcately oblong, obtuse, apiculate, 1-veined.
Lip 3 x 2 mm, side lobes ovate-orbicular; midlobe thick, orbicular, obtuse.
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