AusTraits

Dendrobium canaliculatum

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Dendrobium canaliculatum R.Br.

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Callista canaliculata (R.Br.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Callista canaliculate Dockrill (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Callista tattoniana (Bateman ex Rchb.f.) Kuntze (taxonomic synonym)
  • Cepobaculum canaliculatum (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Cepobaculum tattonianum (Bateman ex Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium canaliculatum R.Br. var. canaliculatum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dendrobium canaliculatum var. nigrescens Nicholls (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium canaliculatum var. pallidum Dockrill (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium canaliculatum var. tattonianum (Bateman ex Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium tattonianum Bateman ex Rchb.f. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 17 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): 200 mm (100-300 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (5-12 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
life history
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: Brock_1993]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Brock_1993810J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.