Dipodium squamatum (G.Forst.) R.Br. 1810 SECTION Dipodium

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Common Name The Scaly Dipodium In Australia - The Purple Hyacinth - The Blotched Hyacinth Orchid

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found as a large sized, cool to cold growing mycoheterotrophic, leafless terrestrial occuring in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia at elevations of 10 to 1100 meters in open forests and woodlands, drier ridges and river valleys and in coastal areas all in well drained soils with an erect stem that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, reddish brown, to 3' [to 100 cm] long, 9 to 60 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Corallorhiza squamata (G.Forst.) Poir. 1818; Cymbidium squamatum (G.Forst.) Sw. 1800; Dendrobium punctatum Sm. 1804; Dipodium carinatum Schltr. 1920; Dipodium gracile Kraenzl. 1929; Dipodium heimianum Kraenzl. 1929; Dipodium punctatum (Sm.) R.Br.1810; Dipodium punctatum var. album F.M.Bailey 1890; Dipodium punctatum var. squamatum (G.Forst.) Finet ex Guillaumin 1941; Epidendrum squamatum (G.Forst.) Poir. 1810; *Ophrys squamata G.Forst. 1786; Wailesia punctata (Sm.) G.Nicholson 1887

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1862 as D punctatum; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1862 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as D punctatum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as D punctatum; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966 as D punctatum; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 as D punctatum drawing fide; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 as D punctatum drawing fide; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 as D punctatum photo ok; Orquideologia Vol 15 #2-3 1982 as D punctatum photo ok; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989 as D punctatum var squamatum; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 25 1520 - 1584 Brieger 1991 as D punctatum; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 25 1520 - 1584 Brieger 1991 as D punctatum var squamatum; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 25 1520 - 1584 Brieger 1991 as D carinatum; < Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 photo good; Orchids of Australia Riley & Banks 2002 as D punctatum; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as D punctatum photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 12 O'Byrne 2013; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 as Dendrobium punctatum drawing fide;

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