Dockrillia teretifolia

Pencil Orchid

The flowering stems are 50–100 mm long and bear between three and fifteen crowded, white, cream-coloured or greenish, crowded flowers
The flowers are 20–30 mm long and 30–40 mm wide with red or purplish marks in the centre
The sepals are 20–30 mm long, about 3 mm wide and spread widely apart from each other
The petals are a similar length but only about 1 mm wide
The labellum is curved, 20–30 mm long, about 5 mm wide with three lobes
The side lobes curve upwards and the middle lobe has a long, thin tip, crinkled edges and three wavy ridges on its top
Flowering occurs from July to August

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It has long, thin hanging stems
Zig-zagged, branched stems
0.5–2 mm long and 2–4 mm wide forming bushy clumps
The rigid flowering stems bear up to twelve crowded white to cream-coloured flowers

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Habitat:

It grows in rainforest and humid open forest mostly in near-coastal districts
Is found in rainforest, along streams and near mangroves
The thin pencil orchid grows on rocks but usually on trees, with a preference for hoop pine Araucaria cunninghamii in Queensland and for Casuarina glauca in NSW

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Taxonomy and naming
- Dendrobium teretifolium was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen

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