Oberonia djamuensis Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Menophyllum SECTION Platyacron Schlechter Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Djamu Gorge Oberonia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to a very short, erect, subflexuous, laxly leafy stem carrying 5 to 7, erect to suberect, linear-lanceolate, acute, somewhat subfalcate, glabrous leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect to suberect, 2.8" [7 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acumiate, glabrous, subdentate margin, equal to the ovary floral bracts and carrying the non-resupinate flowers in whorls.

Schlechter states that the sepals and petals are green, the lip is brown with a darker spot towards the base.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide; Orchids of The Solomon Isalnds and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991;

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