Dendrobium rigidum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Dendrobium
- Species
- Dendrobium rigidum
- Scientific Name
- Dendrobium rigidum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dendrobium rigidum
Dendrobium rigidum, commonly known as the smooth tongue orchid or smooth tick orchid, is a species of orchid native to tropical North Queensland and to New Guinea. It is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with wiry, hanging stems, fleshy, dark green leaves and flowering stems with between two and seven crowded, cream-coloured, star-shaped flowers often with pink or red on the back. It grows on trees, shrubs and rocks in a paperbark swamps and rainforest.
...Dendrobium rigidum in languages:
- English
- Smooth Tongue Orchid
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Dendrobium bowmanii
- Dendrobium brevicaudum
- Dendrobium casuarinae
- Dendrobium caudiculatum
- Dendrobium chordiforme
- Dendrobium cucumerinum
- Dendrobium leptophyton
- Dendrobium lichenastrum
- Dendrobium linguiforme
- Dendrobium mortii
- Dendrobium pugioniforme
- Dendrobium racemosum
- Dendrobium rigidum
- Dendrobium schoeninum
- Dendrobium striolatum
- Dendrobium teretifolium
- Dendrobium toressae
- Dendrobium vagans








