Small epilith with arching or pendent, wiry stems. Leaves terete, to 11 cm long, to 3 mm wide, fleshy, furrowed, often pendent. Flowers 1 or 2, to 1.5 cm long, not widely opening, cream to yellowish with brown to purplish striations; spring. Sepals lanceolate. Petals narrower than sepals. Labellum distinctly 3-lobed, white. Dendrobium striolatum Rchb. f.
NSW, Vic, Tas.
D. schoenina (Lindl.) M.A. Clem. & D.L. Jones from Qld and NSW is a medium sized epiphyte with erect, terete, ribbed leaves and inflorescences of 1?4 spidery flowers that are mostly white to pale mauve with purple stripes Syn. Dendrobium schoenina Lindl., Dendrobium beckleri F. Muell..
D. racemosa (Nicholls) Rauschert from Qld is a medium sized to large epiphyte with erect, terete, ribbed leaves and inflorescences of 8-15 spidery flowers that are mostly white or cream. Syn. Dendrobium racemosum (Nicholls) Clemesha &Dockrill.
Source: (2005). Orchidaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press. (as Dockrillia striolata)
