Dendrobium adae F.M. Bailey 1884 SECTION Dendrocoryne Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Richard Korber

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Common Name Ada's Dendrobium [Mrs. Ada Stewart 1800's]

Flower Size 3/4" to 1.6' [2 to 4 cm]

Found in NE Australia [Cape York Penninsula] as a sympodial epiphyte or lithophyte in exposed, north to west facing locations in cloud forest or in protected spots in open forests at elevations of 700 to 1220 meters as a smal to medium sized, cold to cool growing, semi-pendant species with thin, wiry, erect to semi pendant stemsthat are swolen at the base and become yellowbrown and furrowed with age carrying 2 to 4 apical, narrowly or broadly lanceolate, thin leaves which blooms on a to 3" [7.5 cm] long, apical raceme with a few to several [2 to 6] fragrant [scented of orange blossoms] flowers occuring in the winter and early spring. On cool cloudy days and at night the flowers are scentless and they close half way, they also yellow with age.

Synonyms Callista adae (F.M. Bailey) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium ancorarium Rupp 1945; Dendrobium palmerstoniae Sclechter 1907; Thelychiton adae (F.M.Bailey) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Tropilis adae (F.M. Bailey) Butzin 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006