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It is a small genus consisting of five terrestrial, sometimes saxicolous, species of leafy herbs occurring in Indo-Malesia and Australia. Stems are cylindrical, fleshy, ensheathed by the bases of leaf petioles and rooting at the bases. Leaves are elliptic, plicate, thin-textured. Inflorescence is terminal, erect, unbranched, racemose, bearing numerous small, green, yellow, brown-pink or purple flowers arranged in rows around the axis (Chen and Wood 2009).
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Teoh, E.S. (2021). Dienia Lindl.. In: Orchid Species from Himalaya and Southeast Asia Vol. 1 (A - E). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58872-4_44
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