Flowering class: Monocot
Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Callista aquea (Lindl.) Kuntze |
| synonym | Dendrobium album Wight, nom. illeg. |
🗒 Common Names
| No Data |
📚 Overview
Description
Epiphytic herbs; stem clavoid, leafy during flowering. Leaves alternate, bifarious, ovate-lanceate, 5-10 x 1-2 cm, base rounded, apex acuminate. Flowers white, ca 4 cm across, 2-3 from leaf-axils. Petals broader than sepals. Lip rhombic, faintly 3-lobed, tinged with yellow, margin erose, mid-lobe triangular, mentum short, incurved.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Evergreen and shola forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Western Ghats
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Wayanad, Pathanamthitta, Palakkad
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Endemic Distribution
Western Ghats
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Dendrobium aqueum Lindl., Bot. Reg. 6: t.59. 1843; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 739. 1890; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1417(991). 1928; Abraham & Vatsala, Introd. Orchids 349. 1981; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 275. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 471. 1990; Muktesh, Epiphytic Fl. Western Ghats 86. 1998; Sathish in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 200. 1999; Sathish & Manilal, Orchid Memories 178. 2004; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 481. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 800. 2009.
- Dendrobium album Wight, Ic. t. 1645. 1851.
Information Listing > References
- Dendrobium aqueum Lindl., Bot. Reg. 6: t.59. 1843; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 739. 1890; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1417(991). 1928; Abraham & Vatsala, Introd. Orchids 349. 1981; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 275. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 471. 1990; Muktesh, Epiphytic Fl. Western Ghats 86. 1998; Sathish in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 200. 1999; Sathish & Manilal, Orchid Memories 178. 2004; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 481. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 800. 2009.
- Dendrobium album Wight, Ic. t. 1645. 1851.
No Data
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Asparagales |
| Family | Orchidaceae |
| Genus | Dendrobium |
| Species | Dendrobium aqueum Lindl. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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