Pink Rock Orchid at Mirador, NSW
Identification history
| Dendrobium kingianum subsp. kingianum | 3 May 2024 | Tapirlord | ||
| Dendrobium kingianum subsp. kingianum | 2 May 2024 | hynesker1234 | ||
| Insufficient or inconclusive evidence | 19 Aug 2019 | JackieMiles | ||
| Caladenia latifolia | 18 Aug 2019 | hynesker1234 |
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Is it perhaps Caledonia? I have many of these in my garden. I don’t recall seeing this native pictured at the orchid presentation at yesterday’s bio blitz.
6 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
18 Aug 2019
Hi, I think this is Dendrobium kingianum (or Thelychiton kingianus if you keep up with recent name changes), pink rock orchid. It isn't a local native (Queensland to Hunter Valley is its range) so isn't really appropriate to put up as a sighting. The website is supposed to be for naturally occurring plants and animals, not garden plants (unless they have got out and become established in the bush).
hynesker1234
wrote:
19 Aug 2019
Interesting. It was a gift (20 years ago) and the gifter told me they occurred under and around hero house opposite Pambula golf course. I’ll check with her as to origin.
hynesker1234
wrote:
19 Aug 2019
My gifter told me she has seen them in the wild on rocks near Brogo dam!
JackieMiles
wrote:
19 Aug 2019
I'm pretty sure the ones on the rocks near Brogo Dam would be the rock orchid, Dendrobium speciosum, which is a much larger critter with cream flowers. It is very common locally, though accessible ones sometimes get collected by people, and are hammered by wallabies and feral goats, who find the foliage very tasty. I've seen a spot at Brogo where goats had been clambering down a steep rock face to get at them.
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- hynesker1234 Recorded by
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Collections
hynesker1234 Rejected
Additional information
- True In flower
- 1cm Flower dimension
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
Species information
- Dendrobium kingianum subsp. kingianum Scientific name
- Pink Rock Orchid Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Machine learning
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In flower
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Synonyms
Thelychiton kingianus
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