Dendrobium wassellii

"Dendrobium wassellii S.T.Blake, commonly known as the furrowed pencil orchid,[2] is a species of orchid endemic to a small area on Cape York Peninsula. It is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with branched stems, cylindrical, furrowed leaves and flowering stems with up to sixty crowded white flowers with a yellow labellum." 

Dendrobium wassellii S.T.Blake, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 73: 66 (1963).

Dendrobium wassellii S.T.Blake, Photo by José Santos da Costa

its native range is Queensland (Cape York Peninsula).

Latin Name: 

Dendrobium wassellii S.T.Blake

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Dockrillia wassellii (S.T.Blake) Brieger

English Name:

Wassel's Dockrillia - The Furrowed Pencil Orchid.

Description: 

Also known as Dockrillia wassellii, this 3-5 inch plant when mature, has thick ridged pencil shaped leaves – flowers from spring into summer with densely flowered sprays of white spidery flowers – fragrant – easy to grow if you can reduce watering in the winter.

Distribution:

Queensland.

Ecological:

As an epiphytic and occassional lithophytic species from the far North east on the trunks of trees at the edge of the rainforest at elevations around 300 meters where it is an hot to warm grower that blooms from spring through summer.

Flowering times:

Blooms from spring through summer.

Flower size:

3.3 cm.

Cultivation:

Temp:  Int-Warm

Light:  Mod

Water:  Allow to dry out

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/628945-1

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:628945-1

- orchidspecies.com/docwasselii.htm. 

- newworldorchids.com/shop/dendrobium-wassellii/

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrobium_wassellii