Oberonia cuneata J.J.Sm. 1909 SECTION Diurium
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol IV
Common Name The Cut in Half Oberonia
Flower Size
Found in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Vanuatu in lowland and montane forests at elevations of 450 to 1450 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, clustered stems carrying, laxly 6, erect-patent, linear, sharply acute leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and fall on an erect, cylindrical, rather dense, longer than the leaves, [2.6" [6.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, acumiante, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers
Synonyms Oberonia bifida var. bifida.; Oberonia bifida var. brachyloba Schltr. 1911; Oberonia japenensis J.J.Sm. 1934
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lowland orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol IV Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006
