Dendrobium trilamellatum J.J.Sm. 1908 SECTION Spatulata 2002 Plant and Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid PageCopyright ©

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Common Name The Three Lamellas Dendrobium - The Fragrant Tea Tree Orchid - The Large Tea Tree Orchid

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Southern New Guinea and In Northern Australia as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte from low-lying swampy flats or Melaleuca forests with dry winter and spring with clustered, basally swollen canes carrying several, dark green, fleshy, linear-lanceolateleaves that are clustered towards the apex and blooms in the late winter and spring on an erect, 16" [37.5 cm] long inflorescence carrying to 13 glossy, fragrant and long-lived flowers

Synonyms Cepobaculum semifuscum (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Cepobaculum trilamellatum (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Dendrobium johannis var. semifuscum Rchb.f. 1883; Dendrobium semifuscum (Rchb.f.) Lavarack & P.J.Cribb 1980

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo ok; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Cepobaculum semifuscum; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Cepobaculum trilamellatum

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