AusTraits

Dendrobium bigibbum

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. & Paxton

Synonyms: 51 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Callista bigibba (Lindl. & Paxton) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Callista phalaenopsis (Fitzg.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Callista sumneri (F.Muell.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. & Paxton f. bigibbum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. & Paxton subsp. bigibbum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. & Paxton subvar. bigibbum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. & Paxton var. bigibbum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum f. compactum D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum f. compactum Dockrill (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum f. compactum G.Piper (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum f. compactum St.Cloud (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum f. compactum Upton (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum f. phalaenopsis (Fitzg.) St.Cloud (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum f. superbium A.D.Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum f. superbum G.Piper (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum subsp. compactum D.L.Jones (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum subsp. phalaenopsis D.L.Jones (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum subvar. candidum J.H.Veitch (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum subvar. compactum (C.T.White) Dockrill (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum subvar. compactum St.Cloud (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum subvar. superbum (Rchb.f.) J.H.Veitch (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. album F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. candidum Rchb.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. compactum (C.T.White) Peter B.Adams (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. compactum (C.T.White) Upton (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. compactum G.Piper (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. macranthum F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. phalaenopsis (Fitzg.) F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. schroderianum (Sander) Peter B.Adams (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. schroederianum Peter B.Adams (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. sumneri (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum var. superbum Rchb.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium lithocola D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium phalaenopsis Fitzg. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium phalaenopsis Fitzg. var. phalaenopsis (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium phalaenopsis f. phalaenopsis Chapm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium phalaenopsis var. compactum C.T.White (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium phalaenopsis var. schroderianum Sander (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium phalaenopsis var. schroederanum Clemesha (doubtful taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium phalaenopsis var. schroederianum W.Watson (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium phalaenopsis var. statterianum Sander (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium schroederanum Clemesha (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium schroederanum S.T.Blake (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium schroederianum L.Gentil (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium statterianum O'Brien (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium sumneri F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium x statteranum S.T.Blake (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium x statterianum (Sander) Rolfe (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vappodes bigibba (Lindl. & Paxton) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Vappodes lithocola (D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vappodes phalaenopsis (Fitzg.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: SPRAT_2025_2 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 16 traits from 18 records in 4 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 120 mm (120-120 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (25-25 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SPRAT_2025_2911F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.