About
The McIlwraith hermit orchid is a small, wiry-stemmed orchid known only from rainforest in the McIlwraith Range of north Queensland. Each stem bears a single tiny, shiny cream flower with a purple and yellow lip.
Field notes
Morphology
Crowded, wiry stems 10–30 cm long and about 1 mm thick carry narrow leaves 3–6 cm long in two rows. Each stem produces one cream flower about 7–8 mm wide with a small purple and yellow labellum.
Distribution & habitat
Endemic to the McIlwraith Range, tropical north Queensland, Australia, on small rocks, logs and trees in rainforest.
Ecology
Flowers between December and April.
History & etymology
Described in 1967 by Alick Dockrill in Australian Plants, honouring Malcolm Brown, who collected the type.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- Australia
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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