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Dendrobium aphyllum
Synonym
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Callista aphylla
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Family
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Orchidaceae
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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March – April
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Distribution
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India,
Bhutan, Burma, China, Thailand,
Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
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IUCN Status
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Least Concern
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Uses
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Ornamental
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Key
botanical characters:
Plant is an epiphytic orchid and sometimes
lithophytic with clustered, cane-like, pendulous stems of 20–200 cm long. The
leaves are 3–10 cm long, 1–3 cm wide and deciduous after one growing season.
These heavy long cane like stems assume the role of pseudobulbs. The canes
are deciduous and the plant produces numerous aerial growths (keikis). There
are usually many inflorescences per plant, with one to three flowers on each.
The flowers are 4–5 cm across, sepals and petals are somewhat translucent,
yellowish cream to whitish, pinkish violet. The lip is trumpet-shaped,
variable in width (from 2.0–3.7 cm wide when spread), pale yellow or less
often white, whitish at the base, with dark violet branching veins inside the
tube-shaped part, and densely covered with soft, short hair on the exterior
surface and along the margins, except in the basal part. The flowers are
flimsy and short lived, lasting about a week.
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