Dendrobium wassellii, commonly known as the furrowed pencil orchid,[1] is a species of orchid endemic to a small area on Cape York Peninsula. It is an epiphytic or lithophyticorchid with branched stems, cylindrical, furrowed leaves and flowering stems with up to sixty crowded white flowers with a yellow labellum.
Dendrobium wassellii is an epiphytic orchid with creeping, branching stems Шаблон:Convert thick. There are one or two hard, dull green leaves on the end of each branch. The leaf is more or less cylindrical, Шаблон:Convert long and about Шаблон:Convert wide with five furrows along its length. The flowering stems are Шаблон:Convert long and bear between ten and sixty crowded, sparkling white flowers Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The sepals and petals spread widely apart from each other with their tips turned outwards. The sepals are Шаблон:Convert long, about Шаблон:Convert wide and the petals are a slightly longer but narrower. The labellum is Шаблон:Convert long, about Шаблон:Convert wide, curved and yellow with purple markings. The labellum has three lobes, the side lobes erect and blunt and the middle lobe with wavy edges and three ridges along its midline. Flowering occurs from May to June.[1][2]
