Dendrobium antennatum
Green antelope orchid
Family OrchidaceaeAlso called Antelope orchid
About
The green antelope orchid is an epiphyte of New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Cape York. Tall pseudobulbs bear sprays of white flowers with upright, twisted pale green petals and a purple-striped lip.
Field notes
Morphology
Yellowish-green cylindrical pseudobulbs 30–60 cm tall carry eight to twelve egg-shaped leaves on their upper two-thirds. Flowering stems 20–35 cm long from upper leaf axils bear three to fifteen flowers 5–6 cm long, mostly white with pale green petals; the narrow dorsal sepal often curls to one side.
Distribution & habitat
Mainly coastal rainforest from sea level to about 1,200 m in the McIlwraith Range on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, and in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It is rare in Australia.
History & etymology
Described by John Lindley in 1843 from a New Guinea specimen collected by Richard Brinsley Hinds.
Conservation
Listed as endangered in Australia under the EPBC Act 1999; assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Solomon Islands
- IUCN status
- Least concern
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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