Dendrobium tozerense Lavarack 1977 SECTION Grastidium Photo by © M A Clements and The Australian Tropical Rainforest Orchid Website

Common Name The Tozer Range Dendrobium [Mountain range in northern Australia] - In Australia The White Gemini Orchid

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in northern Australia on rainforests trees in open rocky areas often on cliffs and rocks at low elevations as a small to medium sized, hot growing lithophyte with slender, woody, generally erect stems carrying towards the apex in mature specimens many, stiff, persistent, dark green, distinctly unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on many, short, 2 flowered inflorescence holding the flowers back to back.

Synonyms Grastidium tozerense (Lavarack) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1996

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Dendrobium Orchids of Australia Upton 1989 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Dendrobium and its Relatives Lavarack, Harris and Stocker 2000 as Grastidium tozerense photo fide; The Dendrobiums Wood 2006 photo fide; Native Australian Orchids Jones 2004 as Grastidium tozerense photo fide;

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