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Dockrillia schoenina

(Pencil Orchid)

The pencil orchid sometimes occurs as a tough woody, rather unappealing epiphyte with thin pencil-like leaves ...

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... until it flowers in spring. About 4cm across, the flowers are remarkable with their recurved labellum, purple stripes and green sepals. 

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