Australian Native Plants - Dendrobium Orchids
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Cepobaculum semifuscum
(Antelope Orchid) |
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Height
30cm - 40cm |
The Antelope Orchid is an epiphytic Tea Tree orchid. It grows on paperbark trees (tea trees) and also grows on other rough barked trees. The flowers are yellow with darker brownish stripes, with long twisted petals from which it gets its common... Read more > |
Ceratobium dalbertisii
(Green Antelope Orchid) |
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Height
30cm - 60cm |
The Green Antelope Orchid is an epiphytic orchid. The flowers are produced in clusters of up to fifteen and are about 50mm across. The long petals are greenish towards the tips and have a slight twist and are held erect and give it the common name... Read more > |
Coelandria smillieae
(Bottlebrush Orchid) |
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Height
15cm - 150cm |
The Bottlebrush Orchid is an epiphytic orchid from Queensland. It usually grows on trees but sometimes grows as a lithophyte on rocks. It produces clusters of white and pink flowers with green tips in heads that resemble a bottlebrush. The cluster... Read more > |
Dockrillia bowmanii
(Straggly Pencil Orchid) |
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Height
60cm |
The Straggly Pencil Orchid is a relatively small epiphytic orchid (sometimes found growing on rocks as a lithophyte). It produces flower clusters about 10 cm long. The star shaped flowers are greenish or yellowish may have some reddish striping, and... Read more > |
Dockrillia cucumerina
(Cucumber Orchid) |
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Height
prostrate |
The Cucumber Orchid grows as a creeping epiphyte or lithophyte from eastern Australia. The flowers are cream or pale green with reddish stripes, and a white labellum or lip which has reddish markings. Flowering is in spring and summer. The leaves... Read more > |
Dockrillia linguiformis
(Dendrobium linguiforme) |
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Height
prostrate |
The Tongue Orchid is an orchid from eastern Queensland and New South Wales. It grows as an epiphyte or lithophyte. The flowers are star shaped and white or cream, and have fairly long narrow sepals and petals giving it a spidery appearance.... Read more > |
Dockrillia schoenina
(Common Pencil Orchid) |
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Height
15cm |
The Common Pencil Orchid is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid. It produces cluster of up to four flowers, with each flower about 4 cm across. The lateral petals and sepals are cream or pale green with dark purple striping near the base. The... Read more > |
Dockrillia striolata
(Streaked Rock Orchid) |
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Height
10cm |
The Streaked Rock Orchid is a fairly small lithophyte from south eastern Australia. The flowers are cream or yellow with darker streaks of reddish or purple near the base. The labellum or lip is white. Flowers are fragrant and about 3 cm across with... Read more > |
Dockrillia teretifolia
(Thin Pencil Orchid) |
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Height
60cm |
The Thin Pencil Orchid is an epiphytic orchid from coastal Queensland and New South Wales. It produces profuse flushes of flowers in white or cream or yellow, with purple stripes near the base. The common name of Bridal Veil Orchid arises from the... Read more > |
Dockrillia wassellii
(Furrowed Pencil Orchid) |
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Height
12cm |
The Furrowed Pencil Orchid is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid from the rainforest of far north Queensland. Flowers are produced in clusters up to 20 cm long, with up to 60 flowers in a cluster. The individual flowers are about 2 cm across, star... Read more > |
Thelychiton gracilicaulis
(Delicate Dendrobium) |
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The Delicate Dendrobium is native to eastern Australia and is also found on some islands of the South Pacific. The leaves are greyish green and elongated oval. The flowers are yellowish green with reddish spots. The flowers clusters have from 5 to... Read more > |
Thelychiton jonesii
(Oak Orchid) |
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Height
pseudobulb to 50cm with leaves to 15cm |
The Oak Orchid (Thelychiton jonesii) is a species of orchid endemic to Queensland. There are two recognised subspecies: (Thelychiton jonesii var. jonesii and (Thelychiton jonesii var. magnificum. It has up to seven oval leaves that grow to about... Read more > |
Thelychiton kingianus
(Pink Rock Orchid) |
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Height
pseudobulb to 30cm with leaves to 10cm |
The Pink Rock Orchid can form large clumps. The pseudobulbs have from two to seven oval leaves about 10cm long and 2cm wide. The flowers are pink or purple and grow in clusters of up to about fifteen. Flowering is mainly from August to November.... Read more > |
Thelychiton moorei
(Moore's Dendrobium) |
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Height
pseudobulb to 20cm with leaves to 15 cm long |
Dendrobium moorei is found only on Lord Howe Island. The pseudobulb grows to about 20 cm long with four or five elliptical leaves tapering to point. The flowers grow in large clusters about 15 cm in length. The flowers are white sometimes marked... Read more > |
Thelychiton speciosus
(Rock Orchid) |
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Height
pseudobulb to 45 cm with leaves to 25 cm long |
The Rock orchid grows as an epiphyte on branches of trees or on rocks in open forest. It can form large spreading clumps on rocks. The pseudobulbs grow to about 45 cm long with about two to five oval leaves per stem. The leaves are up to 25 cm long... Read more > |
Vappodes phalaenopsis
(Cooktown Orchid) |
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Height
grows to about 80 cm |
The Cooktown Orchid is the floral emblem of Queensland and one of the most ornamental of Australian orchids. It is an epiphyte growing on trunks and branches of trees. The flower clusters have up to ten flowers and grow on canes up to 4 cm long.... Read more > |
