Cepobaculum johannis

Chocolate Tea Tree Orchid
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Dendrobieae
Subtribe: Dendrobiinae
Genus: Cepobaculum
Species: C. johannis
Binomial name
Cepobaculum johannis
(Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. et D.L.Jones, Orchadian 13(11): 486 (2002).
Synonyms
  • Dendrobium undulatum var. johannis (Rchb.f.) F.M.Bailey
  • Dendrobium johannis" Rchb.f.
  • Callista johannis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Cepobaculum johannis, or Chocolate Tea Tree Orchid, is a species of Tea Tree Orchid of the genus Cepobaculum, which was segregated in 2002 from the genus Dendrobium.[1][2]

Range

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland from Cape York to the McIlwraith Range, at 50-600 metres altitude.[3]

Description

Common locally, growing especially on paper-barked or rough-barked trees in open forest, swampy areas and monsoonal thickets. The flowers (20-45 x 20-40 mm) bloom from March to July, are chocolate brown, with bright yellow labellum and have an unpleasant scent. Sepals and petals strongly twisted, thick and shiny.[4]

Footnotes

  1. Jones (2006), pp. 380, 382.
  2. M. A. Clem. et D. L. Jones, Orchadian 13(11): 486 (2002)
  3. Jones (2006), p. 382.
  4. Jones (2006), p. 382.

References

Dendrobium johannis by Lewis Roberts.


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