Dendrobium phalaenopsis

also know as

Vappodes phalaenopsis

Cooktown Orchid

(gazetted as Dendrobium bigibbum when declared the floral emblem of Queensland)

family ORCHIDACEAE

artist: Nicholls, William H. (1885 - 1951)

original watercolour painting

published posthumously for him in
Orchids of Australia in 1969

 Held by the Melbourne Herbarium

30.6 x 20.4 cm