Dendrobium smilliae F. Muell. 1867 SECTION Pedilonum
Flower Closeup Another Flower Photo by Jay Pfahl © Common Name The Bottlebrush Orchid [Australia] - Smillie's Dendrobium [Female Orchid Enthusiast Australia 1800's]
Flower Size 1 1/2" to 2" [1.5 to 3 cm]
Found in Queensland Australia as well as Papua and New Guinea growing on tree limbs, trunks, tree crooks where leaves have accumulated to form soil and on rocks in lowland open forests near the edge of rainforests at elevations under 600 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with slender, fusiform, leafy throughout, sulcate with age stems enveloped by thin, scarious sheaths and carrying oblong or lanceolate, very thin, twisted or curved, acute leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, medium length to 5" [4 to 12.5 cm], densely many flowered raceme that arise from near the apex of the leafless cane, carrying stiff, thick, waxy and fleshy, tubular flowers held in a ball. A slight winter rest from water and fertilizer should be given until new growth emerges in the spring.
Synonyms Callista ophioglossa (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Callista smilliae (F. Muell.) Kuntze 1891; Chromatotriccum pachyceras (F.Muell. & Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Coelandria smillieae [F. Meuller] Fitz. 1882; Dendrobium hollrungii Kranzlin 1889; Dendrobium hollrungii Kranzlin var australiense Rendle ?; Dendrobium kaernbachii Kranzlin 1894; Dendrobium ophioglossum Rchb.f 1876; Dendrobium pachyceras F. Mueller & Kranzlin 1894; Dendrobium secundum var. urvillei Finet 1903; Dendrobium smilliae var ophioglossum[Rchb.f]Bailey ?; Pedilonum hollrungii (Kraenzl.) Rauschert 1983; Pedilonum ophioglossum (Rchb. f.) Brieger 1981; Pedilonum pachyceras (F. Muell. & Kraenzl. ex Kraenzl.) Rauschert 1983; Pedilonum smillieae (F. Muell.) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985 as Dendrobium hollrungii Kranzlin; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 3 1991 photo; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 4 2003 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 6 2005/6 photo; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Coelandria smillieae
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