Oberonia rufilabris Lindl.1838 SUBGENUS Menophyllum

Inflorescence Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website

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Common Name The Fox-Red Lip Oberonia - In China Hong Chun Yuan Wei Lan

Flower Size .08" [1.8 mm]

Found in India, Bangladesh, Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia China and Vietnam on trees in forests at elevations of 300 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growinng epiphyte with a short stem carrying 3 to 4, curved, obtuse to blunt apically leaves that blooms in the late fall and winter on an erect to arching, 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with a few narrow bracts and with the apical, rather distant flowers opening first.

Synonyms Iridorkis rufilabris (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis rufilabris (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia neotixieri Guillaumin 1963; Oberonia pantlingiana L.R.Shakya & R.P.Chaudhary 1999; Oberonia pulchrebracteata Tixier & Guillaumin 1963; Oberonia tiomanensis M.R.Hend. 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing ok; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as O tiomanensis; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok

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