About
The apricot cane orchid is endemic to the misty mountain forests of Cape York Peninsula. Thin cane-like pseudobulbs carry a few leaves and up to four apricot flowers with a hairy-edged white lip.
Field notes
Morphology
Yellowish-green cylindrical pseudobulbs 15–40 cm long, only 3–4 mm thick, bear two or three dark green leaves 5–8 cm long at the tip. Up to four flowers 2.5–3 cm across, usually apricot and sometimes yellowish green, have a white, purple-tinged lip fringed with tangled white hairs.
Distribution & habitat
Endemic to far north Queensland, Australia, in mist forest between Mount Finnigan and Mount Fisher.
Ecology
Grows on trees, shrubs and boulders.
History & etymology
Described in 1937 by Herman Rupp and Cyril Tenison White in The Queensland Naturalist, honouring physician and naturalist Hugo Flecker.
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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