Dockrillia schoenina (Lindl.) M.A. Clem. & D.L. Jones 1996 Photo courtesy of Dale Borders.
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Common Name The Needle-Shaped Dockrillia or Common Pencil Dockrillia
Flower Size 1 to 1 1/4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm]
This epiphyte or lithophyte is found in Queensland and New South Wales Australia on the drier edges of rainforests and coastal swamps at altitudes up to 600 meters with superposed or branching, many noded, yellowish stems carrying a single, apical, upright or spreading, terete or obtusely 4 angled, acute, deeply sulcate leaf and they appreciate high humidity, bright light, and warm to hot temperatures to bring about the late winter and early spring blooming on a short, one to few flowered inflorescence that arises from the nodes at the tips of the branches and giving rise to fragrant, non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms Callista beckleri [F. Meuller] Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium beckleri F. Mueller 1866; Dendrobium mortii Bentham not F. Mueller; Dendrobium schoeninum Lindley 1850; Dendrobium striolatum FM.Bailey not Rchb.f; Dendrobium striolatum Rchb.f var beckleri 1886; Dockrillia beckleri (F. Muell.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 9 1959 as Dendrobium beckleri; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966 as Dendrobium beckleri; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 3 1994 photo as Dendrobium schoeninum; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006
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