Vappodes Phalaenopsis
| Cooktown Orchid | |
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| Conservation status | |
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Vulnerable |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Dendrobium |
| Species: | D. bigibbum |
| Binomial name | |
| Dendrobium bigibbum |
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| Synonyms | |
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Callista phalaenopsis (Fitzg.) Kuntze |
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The Cooktown Orchid (Vappodes phalaenopsis), has been the floral emblem of Queensland since 19 November 1959. It was first described in 1880 as Dendrobium phalaenopsis, then included in Dendrobium bigibbum,
More recently, the D. bigibbum complex has been separated into the genus Vappodes. The new name of Vappodes phalaenopsis has now been accepted by the World Checklist of Monocotyledons, as a synonym of Dendrobium bigibbum Lindl., Paxton's Fl. Gard. 3: 25 (1852).
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