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Fairy bells

Sarcochilus ceciliae

Fairy bells
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
Queensland to N. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Sarcochilus ceciliae, commonly known as fairy bells, is a lithophytic orchid endemic to eastern Australia. It has up to ten channelled, spotted linear leaves and up to twenty pink flowers with a hairy labellum.

Where it grows

Fairy bells mainly grows on rocks and cliff faces in humid places. It occurs between the Atherton Tableland in Queensland and the Hastings River catchment in New South Wales.

Other Sarcochilus plants

Northern lawyer orchid · Butterfly orchid · Small lawyer orchid · Brown butterfly orchid · Orange blossom orchid · Ravine Orchid · Hartman's Sarcochilus · Myrtle bells · Harlequin orchid · Green Tree Orchid · Banded butterfly orchid · Sarcochilus spathulatus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sarcochilus ceciliae 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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