Dendrobium comptonii Rendle 1921 SECTION Dendrocoryne Photo courtesy of David Banks - Copyrighted Australia. ©
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Common Name Compton's Dendrobium [English-South African Botanist 1900's] - Yellow Cane Orchid
Flower Size 1/2 to 3/4"
Found on Lord Howe Island as well as New Caledonia as a medium to giant sized, epiphyte or occasional lithophyte at elevations of 400 to 800 meters on trees and rocks in humid forests with cylindrical, yellowish green, ribbed canes carrying 3 to 7, dark green, thin-textured, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, short, 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with the fragrant, often drooping flowers clustered at the apex of the cane, and occuring in the late winter and spring.
Synonyms Dendrobium drake-casttilloi Kranzl. 1928; Dendrobium floribundum Rchb.f. 1875; Dendrobium gracilicaule F. Mueller var howeanum Maiden 1899; Dendrobium macropus [Endl.]Rchb.f ex Lindley subsp. howeanum [Maiden]P. Green; Dendrobium oscarii A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller 1957; Thelychiton comptonii (Rendle) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Thelychiton howeanus (Maiden) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2005; Tropilis comptonii (Rendle) Rauschert 1983; Tropilis drake-castilloi (Kraenzl.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Thelychiton howeanus