Dipodium stenocheilum O.Schwarz 1927 SECTION Dipodium

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Common Name The Narrow Lip Dipodium - In Australia The Tropical Hyacinth Orchid

Flower Size 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm]

Found in the Northern Territories and Western Australia Australia in open forests and woodlands at elevations of sea level to 300 meters as a large to giant sized, hot growing leafless terrestrial with imbricating basal bracts that blooms in the spring through late summer on an erect, greenish yellow, 3 to 25 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Dipodium punctatum var. stenocheilum (O.Schwarz) Rupp 1944

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide;

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