Dendrobium schoeninum Lindl.

"Dendrobium schoeninum Lindl., commonly known as the common pencil orchid, is an epiphytic or sometimes a lithophytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae and has thin wiry, upright or pendent stems with fleshy, grooved, dark green leaves. Its short flowering stems have one or two, rarely up to four pale green, cream-coloured or mauve flowers with purple markings on the labellum. It grows on rainforest margins in coastal New South Wales and southern Queensland."

 Dendrobium schoeninum Lindl., Gard. Chron. 1846(1): 7 (1846).

Dendrobium schoeninum Lindl., Photos by Rafael Santos

Dendrobium schoeninum Lindl., Photos by 蘇清記

its native range is E. Australia.

Latinh Name: 

Dendrobium schoeninum Lindl.

Synonym:

Callista beckleri (F.Muell.) Kuntze

Dendrobium beckleri F.Muell.

Dockrillia beckleri (F.Muell.) Rauschert

Dockrillia schoenina (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones

English Name:

The Needle-Shaped Dockrillia

Australia name:

Common Pencil Dockrillia

Description: 

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.

Distribution:

New South Wales, Queensland.

Ecological:

On the drier edges of rainforests and coastal swamps at altitudes up to 600 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the late winter and early spring.

Flower size:

3.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Particularities of culture: Plant to be cultivated on plate. In winter, ensure a period of rest in a temperate-cool climate, with plenty of light.

Temperate: growing climate

Very strong luminosity

Rest period: Marked, with temperate-cool climate during the rest period

Type:

Distribution Of Types: Australia (Asia-Tropical)

Sep 9, 1987 Loddiges [s.n.], Australia K001089611 holotype