AusTraits

Dendrobium dicuphum

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Dendrobium dicuphum F.Muell.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Callista dicupha (F.Muell.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dendrobium dicuphum F.Muell. var. dicuphum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Dendrobium dicuphum var. album E.W.Cooper (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dendrobium dicuphum var. grandiflorum Rupp & T.E.Hunt (taxonomic synonym)
  • Vappodes dicupha (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dendrobium affine (Decne.) Steud. (misapplied)
  • Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl. & Paxton (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Nano_2011 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (8), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 35 records in 9 datasets.

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

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 137.5 mm (75-200 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 17.5 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyynnnnnn (1); nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Nano_2011]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): fleshy_underground_organ (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.35 m (0.05-0.5 m) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Brock_1993911J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Sjostrom_200648A. 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.
Nano_201144C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.