Dendrobium jonesii Rendle 1901 SECTION Dendrocoryne Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Common Name Jones' Dendrobium [Australian Orchid Collector early 1900's] - The Oak Orchid

Flower Size .6 to .8" [1 1/2 to 2 cm ]

Found in Queensland Australia in mountains in the Cape York Penninsula at elevations of 150 to 1400 meters in high light of open forests or high in the trees of rainforests as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphytic orchid with dark, grooved and swollen basally stems carrying 2 to 7 ovate, apically crowded, thin leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 to 4, erect to arching, racemose inflorescence arising from the nodes towards the apex of the stem and carrying 30, spicily fragrant flowers that often do ot open fully.

Synonyms Dendrobium fusiforme Bailey 1902; Dendrobium fusiforme f. magnificum Dockrill 1956; Dendrobium fusiforme var. blackburnii Nicholls 1950; Dendrobium fusiforme var. fusiforme ( Bailey ) F.M.Bailey 1949; Dendrobium jonesii subsp. bancroftianum (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1989; Dendrobium jonesii subsp. blackburnii (Nicholls) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1989 ; Dendrobium jonesii subsp. jonesii Rendle 1989; Dendrobium jonesii subsp. magnificum (Dockrill) D.P.Banks & Clemesha 1990; Dendrobium jonesii var. jonesii Rendle 1992; Dendrobium jonesii var. magnificum (Dockrill) Dockrill 1992; Dendrobium ruppianum A.D. Hawkes ex F. Gordon 1964; Dendrobium speciosum var. bancroftianum Rchb.f. 1886 ; Dendrobium speciosum var. fusiforme F.M.Bailey 1883; Thelychiton jonesii ( Rendle ) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Thelychiton jonesii subsp. bancroftianus (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002 ; Thelychiton jonesii subsp. blackburnii (Nicholls) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Tropilis ruppiana (A.D.Hawkes ex F.Gordon) Butzin 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Thelychiton jonesii