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

Common Name The Maboro Range Oberonia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with an very short rhizome giving rise to an erect, strict to substrict, densely leafy stem carrying 7 to 8, erect-patent, subfalcate-oblique, linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, short, to 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, laxly 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, dorsally carinate, more or less equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are a yellowish flesh color with a yellow anther.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide;

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