Please identify this Bulbophyllum Orchid - NS 5

[Neil Soares]

Hi,  Photographed at my farm at Shahapur yesterday.                      Thanks,                              With regards,                                Neil Soares.

[Pankaj Kumar]

Dear Sir,
This is not Bulbophyllum. They never have nodes on their bulb which is
basically modification of petiole. Here what you see is a pseudostem
with nodes. This is called.

Dendrobium peguanum Lindl., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 3: 19 (1859).

Thanks a lot for sharing.
Regards
Pankaj

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[Neil Soares]

Thanks Dr. Pankaj for the id.                   Regards,                    Neil Soares. --- On Mon, 11/1/10, Pankaj Kumar <sahani...@gmail.com> wrote: