03/06/2026
Dendrobium toressae...
Dendrobium toressae is a small, miniature orchid species first described in 1889 by botanist Frederick Manson Bailey as Bulbophyllum toressae and later reclassified in 1964 as Dendrobium toressae by Alick Dockrill.
This species is endemic to tropical North Queensland, Australia where it is found in a relatively restricted region between the Atherton Tableland and Tully Falls in northeastern Queensland where it grows as an epiphyte or lithophyte in wet tropical climates.
Dendrobium toressae is typically found in rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests at elevations ranging from 1,100m to1,200m.
The below example was photographed on the bench of the May meeting of Berwick Orchid Club Inc.
