About
The buttercup orchid is a creeping epiphyte or lithophyte from the wet coastal forests of north Queensland. Its pseudobulbs carry many grass-like leaves and short sprays of fragrant, waxy, bright yellow flowers.
Field notes
Morphology
A creeping rhizome bears well-spaced pseudobulbs 10–60 cm long, each with eight to twenty narrow, yellowish, grass-like leaves 4–10 cm long. Short racemes 2–5 cm long carry two to ten scented, slightly cupped yellow flowers 1.5–2 cm wide.
Distribution & habitat
North Queensland, Australia, between Mount Windsor National Park and Paluma Range National Park, on rocks and in moist forest including rainforest.
History & etymology
Described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1873 in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- Australia
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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