About
The lily-of-the-valley orchid is a clump-forming orchid of eastern Australian rainforest. Furrowed yellowish pseudobulbs carry one or two leaves and arching sprays of small, bell-shaped yellow flowers.
Field notes
Morphology
Clumps of furrowed, pale green to yellowish pseudobulbs 6–12 cm long each bear one or two thin, bright green leaves 8–12 cm long. A flowering stem 10–20 cm long carries five to twenty bell-shaped yellow flowers 6–8 mm wide.
Distribution & habitat
Between the Atherton Tableland in Queensland and Grafton in New South Wales, Australia, on trees, rocks and cliffs and on well-lit upper branches of rainforest trees.
History & etymology
Described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1859 from a specimen collected near Moreton Bay by William Hill. The epithet means 'one-leaved'.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- Australia
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
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