Dendrobium kingianum 'Roy'HCC/AOS. AD/AOC-QOS Bidwill ex Lindley 1844 SECTION Dendrocoryne Photo courtesy of Wilford Neptune.
Plant grown and awarded to Wilford Neptune.
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.
Flower closeup - Pink Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Pink Rock Lily and Capt. King's Dendrobium [Governor - New South Wales 1800's] The Pink Rock Orchid
Flower Size 1" [2 to 3 cm]
This is a small to large sized, cool to warm growing lithophytic orchid from Queensland and New South Wales Australia at elevations of 50 to 1200 meters where it is found both on the coast and in the mountains growing lithophytically on rocks and cliff faces forming dense mats, with swollen basally and then fusiform, sulcate, dark colored stems carrying 2 to 7 , near the apex, ovate, thin textured leaves and blooms in the late winter and early spring on an axillary, erect to arcuate, medium length to 16" [to 40 cm], few to 20 flowered, fragrant raceme that arises from the leaf axils at the apex of the canes both new and old. Water should be greatly reduced and fertilizer eliminated from mid fall until new growth appears in the spring.
The flowers of the species are quite color variable and have a full range of colors between red, purple, white striped and purplish blue.
Synonyms Callista kingiana (Bidwill ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrocoryne kingianum (Bidwill ex Lindl.) Brieger 1981; Thelychiton kingianus (Bidwill ex Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Tropilis kingiana (Bidwill ex Lindl.) Butzin 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; , Orchids of Australia Riley & Banks 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Thelychiton kingianus; Miniature Orchids Frownie 2007
Dendrobium kingianum var album Bidwill ex Lindley 1844
Dendrobium kingianum 'Speckles' HCC-AD/ANOS Bidwill ex Lindley 1844
