Tiny Dendrobium Orchid

Description:

Tiny Dendrobium is a small epiphytic rare orchid native to peninsular India, which can be often seen growing out of bark of trees. Pseudobulbs are small, crowded, ovoid. The plant has 2 leaves which are linear-oblong and pointed. Flowering stem is leafless, solitary, erect, 4-8 flowered. Bracts are nearly as long as the stalk. Flowers are white, tinged with purple. They are small, about 1-1.2 cm across, stalked. Lateral sepals are obtuse, petals narrowly nearly spoon-shaped, mentum long incurved , lip thick, side lobes broad acute, midlobe small round crenulate, disk with a channelled ridge thickened at the end .

Habitat:

Seen on a small hill