Dendrobium taylorii
A tiny clump-forming burr orchid from the wet tropics of north Queensland, with short cylindrical stems each carrying one leathery leaf and small white flowers whose middle lip lobe is densely hairy. It grows on trees and rocks in rainforest, mangroves and sheltered forest, and does best mounted in bright shade with humid, moving air and a slightly drier winter.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte or lithophyte on trees and rocks in rainforest, mangroves and other sheltered forest. It forms small, dense clumps of stems 40–100 mm long, each with a single dark green leathery leaf. Flowers are 10–12 mm across and appear between November and May, lasting a long time.
Wild records run from 30 to 1600 m with a median of 1000 m, so most collections come from the upland Atherton and Evelyn tablelands, though it also reaches mangroves near sea level.
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