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Crepidium flavovirens
Also called Green spur orchid
Dienia flavovirens is a small terrestrial orchid from the rainforests of far north Queensland, grown mainly by orchid enthusiasts. It needs warm, humid, shaded conditions with steady moisture and good drainage.
Dienia flavovirens, commonly known as the green spur orchid, is a plant in the orchid family and is endemic to tropical far North Queensland. It is an evergreen, terrestrial orchid with a fleshy stem, wavy leaves and many yellowish green flowers crowded on a green flowering stem.
The green spur orchid grows in leaf litter, often on steep slopes near streams in rainforest between Mossman and Tully.
Crepidium binabayense · Crepidium dentatum · Crepidium elegans · Fringed spur orchid · Yellow spur orchid · Small spur orchid · Pouched spur orchid · Crepidium quadridentatum · Crepidium quadrilobum · Crepidium ramosii · Crepidium rheedei · Crepidium tjiwideiense
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dienia flavovirens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
