Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 1 botanical country
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Queensland | QLD | AUSTRALASIA |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 65 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 10.5 °C | 13.7 °C | 19.0 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 25.9 °C | 27.8 °C | 30.2 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,400 mm | 2,140 mm | 3,761 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 77 mm | 151 mm | 358 mm |
It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 65 research-grade observations of Dendrobium jonesii that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 17 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Dendrobium fusiforme F.M.Bailey
- Dendrobium fusiforme f. magnificum Dockr.
- Dendrobium fusiforme f. magnificum Dockrill
- Dendrobium fusiforme var. blackburnii Nicholls
- Dendrobium jonesii subsp. bancroftianum (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
- Dendrobium jonesii subsp. blackburnii (Nicholls) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
- Dendrobium jonesii subsp. magnificum (Dockrill) D.P.Banks & Clemesha
- Dendrobium ruppianum A.D.Hawkes ex F.Gordon
- Dendrobium ruppianum f. magnificum Dockrill
- Dendrobium ruppianum var. blackburnii (Nicholls) Dockrill
- Dendrobium speciosum f. bancroftianum (Rchb.f.) F.M.Bailey
- Dendrobium speciosum f. bancroftianum F.M.Bailey
- Dendrobium speciosum var. bancroftianum Rchb.f.
- Thelychiton jonesii (Rendle) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
- Thelychiton jonesii subsp. bancroftianus (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
- Thelychiton jonesii subsp. blackburnii (Nicholls) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
- Tropilis ruppiana (A.D.Hawkes ex F.Gordon) Butzin
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.