Dendrobium rex M.A. Clem. & D.L. Jones 1989 SECTION Dendrocoryne Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of John & Lavinia Rees.

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Common Name The Kingly Dendrobium - The Golden King Orchid

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in southeastern Queensland Australia as a large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte on trees in rainforests or lithophyte on rocks at elevations of 100 to 600 meters in open forests with deep green, erect, cylindrical to slightly club shaped canes with a narrow base that carries several apical, dark green, stiff, leathery leaves and blooms in the late winter and spring on a suberect or pendant, long, densely many flowered inflorescence with star shaped flowers.

Synonyms Dendrobium speciosum var. grandiflorum F.M. Bailey ? ; Dendrobium speciosum subsp. grandiflorum (F.M. Bailey) D.P. Banks & S.C. Clemesha 1990; Thelychiton rex (M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 7 1994 photo; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Thelychiton rex

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