Oberonia brachystachys Lindl. 1838 Photo by © Tripetch P.

Common Name The Short Scape Oberonia

Flower Size .05" [2 mm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Myanamar, Thailand and Malaysia in tropical valleys at lower elevations as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a very short stem carrying, in a fan, 3 to 4, acute, nearly straight leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, longer than the leaf, short scape, many flowered inflorescence with close, set in a whorl flowers

CAUTION, I have no way to verify this determination so use with caution.

Synonyms Iridorkis brachystachya (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Iridorkis demissa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis demissa (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia bambusicola Kerr 1927; Oberonia demissa Lindl. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as O dimissa drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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