Dockrillia sulphurea D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2006 Photo by © Gary Yong Gee

Common Name The Sulphur Yellow Dockrillia In Australia - The Cape York Pencil Orchid

Flower Size Less than 1.8 to 2" [less than 4.5 to 5 cm]

Found in Cape York Queensland Australia in rainforests on trees and on rocks as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with pendulous, branching stems carrying pendulous, terete, not grooved leaves that blooms in the spring on a spreading, 1.4 to 2.2" [3.5 to 5.5 cm] long, 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence carrying heavily scented flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Australian Orchids Jones 2006 photo good

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