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Orchid Species: Tropilis ruppiana

Kew currently accepted name is Dendrobium jonesii

Tropilis ruppiana is an orchid species identified by (A.D.Hawkes ex F.Gordon) Butzin in 1982. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium jonesii.
Genus
Tropilis (Tpl.)
Grex
ruppiana
Parents
Species
Author
(A.D.Hawkes ex F.Gordon) Butzin
Year
1982
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ORIGIN: Found in Queensland Australia in mountains in the Cape York Penninsula at elevations of 150 to 1400 meters in high light of open forests or high in the trees of rainforests.

DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic orchid with dark, grooved and swollen basally stems carrying 2 to 7 ovate, apically crowded, thin leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 to 4, erect to arching, racemose inflorescence arising from the nodes towards the apex of the stem and carrying 30, spicily fragrant flowers that often do not open fully.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 to 0.8 inches [1 1/2 to 2 cm ] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dendrobium Den jonesii 1901 Rendle
Add+ Thelychiton Tly jonesii 2002 (Rendle) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Add+ Dendrobium Den ruppianum 1964 A.D.Hawkes ex F.Gordon
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Den. jonesii 'Kaye' (2 awards in 2002) Den. jonesii 'Trident's Snow Showers' (2 awards from 2000 to 2001) Den. jonesii var. jonesii 'Kooloona' (2012) Den. jonesii 'Franz' (2012) Den. jonesii 'Marie Selby' (2004) Den. jonesii 'Kyle' (1996) Den. ruppianum 'Oxford' (1978) Den. ruppianum 'Magnifiea' (1972)
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