Dendrobium jonesii
Dendrobium jonesii, commonly known as the oak orchid is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid endemic to far north Queensland. It has spindle-shaped pseudobulbs, up to seven thin, dark green leaves and up to thirty five crowded, star-like, fragrant cream-coloured or white flowers with purple markings on the labellum. Description Dendrobium jonesii is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb with dark brownish green pseudobulbs that are long, wide and tapered at both ends. There are between two and seven thin, leathery, dark green leaves long and wide. Between ten and thirty five cream-coloured or white resupinate flowers long and wide are borne on a flowering stem long. The sepals and petals are pointed, the sepals long and wide and the petals a similar length but narrower. The labellum is white with purple markings, about long and wide with three lobes. The side lobes are curved and the middle lobe is oblong with an orange ridge along its midline. Flowering occurs from July to November. Taxonomy and naming Dendrobium jonesii was first formally described in 1901 by Alfred Barton Rendle from a specimen collected by "Mr. Arthur Owen Jones, J.P.". The description was published in the Journal of Botany, British and