Dendrobium clementsii
A crimp orchid (formerly Flickingeria clementsii) from rainforest on the Iron and McIlwraith Ranges of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, forming branching, often pendulous stems up to 1 m long with furrowed pseudobulbs, each carrying one leathery leaf. Clusters of cream flowers with a fringed purple lip open sporadically through the year and last less than a day. It needs warm, humid, bright-shaded conditions and a moderately drier winter like the monsoon tropics it comes from.
Where it grows wild
It grows on trees and rocks in rainforest on the Iron and McIlwraith Ranges of eastern Cape York Peninsula. Like other crimp orchids it forms tangled, branching clumps whose stems hang or sprawl, usually in bright filtered light on trunks, branches or boulders where moist air moves freely.
No elevation records are available. The Iron and McIlwraith Ranges rise from near sea level to about 800 m, and the species probably grows in lowland to upland rainforest within that span.
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