Dendrobium speciosum

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Dendrobium speciosum Sm.

Synonyms: 16 (APC 2026-07-30)

Callista speciosa (Sm.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
Dendrobium biconvexum (D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.) J.M.H.Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
Dendrobium coriaceum (D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.) J.M.H.Shaw (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Dendrobium epiphyticum (D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.) J.M.H.Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
Dendrobium rupicoloides J.M.H.Shaw (taxonomic synonym)
Dendrobium speciosum var. blackdownense Peter B.Adams (taxonomic synonym)
Dendrobium speciosum var. boreale Peter B.Adams, Jac.M.Burke & S.D.Lawson (taxonomic synonym)
Dendrocoryne speciosa M.A.Clem. (taxonomic synonym)
Dendrocoryne speciosum Brieger (taxonomic synonym)
Thelychiton biconvexus D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (taxonomic synonym)
Thelychiton coriaceus D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (pro parte taxonomic synonym)
Thelychiton epiphyticus D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (taxonomic synonym)
Thelychiton rupicola D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (taxonomic synonym)
Thelychiton speciosus (Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones (nomenclatural synonym)
Tropilis speciosa (Sm.) Butzin (nomenclatural synonym)
Tropilis speciosa (Sm.) Rauschert (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (7), Hughes_1992 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (10), NSWFRD_2014 (4), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (40), Yang_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 39 traits from 75 records in 11 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

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (3); resprouts (2) [sources: NSWFRD_2014; White_2020; Yang_2023]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1); white_cream (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 160 mm (40-250 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_width (numerical): 55 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): anemochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): wind (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnyyyn (2); nnnnnnnyynnn (1); nnnnnnnyyynn (2) [sources: Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (2) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): pseudobulb (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_buds (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.01 mg (0.01-0.01 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.4 m (0.4-0.4 m) [sources: Hughes_1992]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	40	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2014_2	8	10	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	5	7	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NSWFRD_2014	4	4	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. 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.
Hughes_1992	3	3	L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
ABRS_2022	2	2	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_2014	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Yang_2023	1	1	S. Yang. “Unpublished data: Fire response traits scored from national and state floras and the taxonomic literature, University of New South Wales”. 2023.