Scientific Name: Dockrillia linguiformis

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  • Pronunciation:
    dock-RILL-ee-ah lin-gwee-FORM-iss
  • Common Name:
    Tongue Orchid, Tick Orchid
Joan Heavey
  • Derivation:
    was Dendrobium linguiforme
  • Family:
    ORCHIDACEAE
  • Status:
    Select Status
  • Flowers:
    White, spring. Fragrant.
  • Flowers Color:
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  • Fruit Color:
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  • Vegetation Type:
    Variety of communities - attached to rocks or trees (photographed specimen on Hoop Pine). Paperback swamps, weathered sandstone outcrops, forest trees bordering rainforests.
  • Species List:
    Upper Yandina Creek, NNP, NNP Tanglewood, NNP off Viewland Drive
Identification Notes

Epiphytic or lithophytic, creeping rhizomatous orchid growing tightly on back of trees and rocks Leaves are alternate, thick, l9ongitudinally furrowed, succulent to 4cm x 15mm. Leaves resemble an engorged tick. Flowers are white and fragrant and on 15cm spikes.