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Blotched gemini orchid

Dendrobium baileyi

Blotched gemini orchid
Photo: Lewis Roberts, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Orchid
Native range
Papua New Guinea (Tagula I.) to Solomon Is. and Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dendrobium baileyi, commonly known as blotched gemini orchid, is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae and has arching stems and flowering stems with one or two spidery, yellow flowers with dark purple spots emerging from leaf axils. It grows in tropical North Queensland, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Where it grows

Blotched gemini orchid grows on trees in rainforest between the McIlwraith Range and Townsville in Queensland and in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Other Dendrobium plants

Slender Cane Orchid · Dendrobium aduncum · Ironbark orchid · White butterfly orchid · Buttercup orchid · Dendrobium albosanguineum · Dendrobium amabile · Dendrobium amboinense · Amethyst-colored Dendrobium · Dendrobium amplum · Dendrobium angulatum · Unscented Dendrobium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dendrobium baileyi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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