Dockrillia in cultivation (N. America)

I have a bowmanii that came from H&R.

I'd really love to get fuliginosa or sp. ex Snake River described in the Lavarack book.

 

I've been looking for fuliginosa for years. Supposedly Tom Nasser has/had it for sale a while back but for some reason I could never get him to confirm that, much less sell me one. I think Ed Merkle also grew it at one point though I've never asked him about it. Hopefully someone in the US still has this species since importing from Australia or New Guinea doesn't seem too easy or affordable these days.

Another two sort-of species for the list are (linguiforme var.) nugentii and x grimesii, a natural hybrid of nugentii and calamiformis. Not 100% on the latter because what's going around as that may instead be the difficult-to-distinguish artificial hybrid Virginia Jupp (linguiforme x teretifolium).

 

Kew's WCSP currently lists Dendrobium nugentii as a distinct species in its own right, though I find it confusing to tell from linguiforme. I think nugentii has rougher-feeling leaves and somewhat blunter flower tepals? Might have those mixed up... Some of what gets called linguiforme definitely seems intergrade between the two, though, I suppose due to wild or captive crossing.

I do enjoy this group a lot and Australian Dendrobes in general are some of my favorite orchids. Right now I grow teretifolium (small seedlings from Marni's flasking though obtained secondhand), linguiforme, maybe nugentii, striolatum, wassellii, 'not-wassellii' (cf. either casuarinae or racemosum), x grimesii (possibly Virginia Jupp), lichenastrum, and toressae. I used to grow rigidum, the prenticei form of lichenastrum, and another clone of striolatum but traded or gave them away in the last few years.

 

Have you guys ever seen the Australian efforts in making Dockarilla hybrids? There are some cool things I've seen on eBay some lonely bored late nights.