Oberonia falconeri Hook.f. 1888

SUBGENUS Oberonia Photo by Trekking Thailand and Orchids of Thailand

LATER EARLIER

Common Name or Meaning Falconer's Oberonia [English Botanist in India 1800's] - In China Duan Er Yuan Wei Lan

Flower Size .04" [1mm]

Found in Bangladesh, the western Himalayas, India, The Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Malaysia in forests or thickets at elevations of 700 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with 4 to 5, imbricating, ensiform, weakly falcate, acute, fleshy, sessile leaves that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a terminal, subdensely many flowered inflroescence completely enveloped by scarious bracts and has scarious, lanceolate, acute to acuminate floral bracts.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination with the photo provided as the floral details are not visible, so use with caution

Synonyms Iridorkis falconeri (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Oberonia calcicola Holttum 1947; Oberonia siamensis Schltr.1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 drawing ok; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as O calicola; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drwawing hmm; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District, Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing okish; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok

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