Sarcochilus ceciliae

"Sarcochilus ceciliae F.Muell., commonly known as fairy bells,[2] is a lithophytic orchid endemic to eastern Australia. It has up to ten channelled, spotted linear leaves and up to twenty pink flowers with a hairy labellum."

Sarcochilus ceciliae F.Muell., Fragm. (Mueller) 5(32): 42, t. 42 (1865). 

Sarcochilus ceciliae F.Muell.; Photo by Georg Palm

its native range is Queensland to N. New South Wales.

Latin Name: 

Sarcochilus ceciliae F.Muell.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Sarcochilus ceciliae var. albus T.E.Hunt

Sarcochilus ceciliae var. eriochilus (Fitzg.) Dockrill

Sarcochilus ceciliae subsp. roseus Clemesha

Sarcochilus ceciliae var. roseus (Clemesha) Dockrill

Sarcochilus eriochilus Fitzg.

Sarcochilus roseus (Clemesha) Clemesha

Sarcochilus setosus D.L.Jones, M.A.Clem. & D.P.Banks

Thrixspermum ceciliae (F.Muell.) Rchb.f.

English Name:

Cecillia Viennot van Masseyk's Sarcochilus (Australian Orchid Enthusiast).

Australia name:

Fairy Bells.

Description: 

They have a short stem carrying 4 to 10, narrowly linear to narrowly lanceolate leaves that are often mottled with brown that blooms on an axillary, erect, racemose, 20 cm long, few to several (3 to 15) flowered, inflorescence that is longer than the leaves, occuring in the late spring and summer with fragrant flowers opening in succession. 

Distribution:

New South Wales, Queensland.

Ecological:

This is a miniature sized, cool to warm growing lithophyte (or occasional epiphyte) occuring on rocks or cliffsides in shady rainforests with leaf litter or moss or fairly open forests in exposed conditions at elevations of 150 to 900 m that keeps it's silver white roots above the media, and grows on vertical rock faces where it survives with occasional rains and is a drier growing Sarcochilus.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the late spring and summer.

Flower size:

8.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Temperature: 60-65 F (15-18 C)

Light: 2400-3600 footcandles

Water-Humidity: 40-60% humidity; care to given with water once growth is complete

Fertilizer: Monthly; ratio depends on medium

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/656526-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:656526-1

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/sarcceciliae.htm. 

- https://www.aos.org/orchids/orchids-a-to-z/letter-s/sarcochilus.aspx

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcochilus_ceciliae