| Dockrillia wassellii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Tribe: | Podochilaeae |
| Subtribe: | Dendrobiinae |
| Genus: | Dockrillia (S.T.Blake) Brieger (as 'öwasseltiiò'), 1981, (Clements & Jones 1996a) [Dendrobium wassellii S.T.Blake] |
| Species: | D. wassellii |
Dockrillia wassellii or the Furrowed Pencil Orchid (previously, Dendrobium wassellii), is found only in the Iron Range and McIlwraith Range on Cape York Peninsula, Australia, at 100-400 metres altitude. "Locally common, grows on upper branches of emergent trees, particularly Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii), in monsoonal rainforest, along stream banks and on humid slopes."[1]
The genus Dockarillia "was recently reinstated as distinct from Dendrobium based on an absence of pseudobulbs, single fleshy leaf terminal on a short stem, multiflowered inflorescence arising from near the base of a leaf and flowers with a 3-lobed labellum."[2][3]
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It flowers from May to June. "Leaves erect, moderately short, thick, grooved, racemes erect, multiflowered, flowers crowded, crystalline white with yellow labellum."[4]