Dendrobium cucumerinum

Macleay ex Lindl. · species

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Liliopsida/Asparagales/Orchidaceae/Dendrobium

At a glance

Occurrence records49

Data sources6

Biological traits23

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Dendrobium cucumerinum's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility49 records↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗

PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements4 literature sources23 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF49 records

Genome at a glanceCCDB2n = 38

01Narrative

Dendrobium cucumerinum, commonly known as the cucumber orchid or gherkin orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to eastern Australia. It is an epiphytic orchid with creeping stems, gherkin-like leaves and flowering stems with up to eighteen cream-coloured, yellowish or greenish white flowers with purple stripes. It often grows on large trees near streams but is also found in drier forests.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPAusTraitsGIFTTRY

Size & morphology6

Leaf length27.5 mm

Leaf length max13 mm

Leaf length min7 mm

Leaf width10.5 mm

Leaf width max13 mm

Leaf width min7 mm

Life cycle & reproduction7

Deciduousnessevergreen

Flowering endFeb

Flowering startNov

Flowering timeyynnnnnnnnyy

Life formpseudobulbous epiphyte

Life spanperennial

Sex typehermaphrodite

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment9

Aquaticterrestrial

Climateseasonally dry tropical

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Fruit fleshinessdry

Fruit typecapsule

Growth formherb

⚠ sources differ — GIFT: herb · AusTraits: herb · TRY: Epiphyte

Leaf compoundnesssimple

Woodinessnon-woody

05DNA & barcodingmolecular

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Dendrobium cucumerinum has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

06Genome at a glanceCCDB

The complete instruction manual Dendrobium cucumerinum carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.

Chromosomes2n = 38 n = 19

Ploidypolyploid inferred

Chromosome records38–382n range38median38mode2records

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 382×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl

CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Hashimoto, K. 1987. Karyomorphological studies of some 80 taxa of Dendrobium, Orchidaceae. Bull. Hiroshima Bot. Gard. 9: 1–186.

CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Hashimoto, K. 1981. Chromosome count in Dendrobium I. 87 species. Bull. Hiroshima Bot. Gard. 4: 63–80.

Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources

polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale

PloiDB · family-scale — chromEvol; reliability=1.000 ↗

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type49 records

Wild obs. + sensor49

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO152 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy22% within 1 km

≤100 m 8≤1 km 1≤10 km 3>10 km 29

41 georeferenced · 8 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor49

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

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