Oberonia lycopodioides (J.König) Ormerod 1995 SUBGENUS Oberonia

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Jim Cootes, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Part Sun HotFall

Common Name or Meaning The Lycopod-Like Oberonia

Flower Size .05" [1.8mm]

Found in Cambodia, Myanamar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Malaysia, Moluccas, the Philippines, and Sumatra in semi-open areas at elevations of sealevel to 150 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a pendant stem enveloped completely by small, flattened, imbricating, conduplicate, oblique, blunt apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, sessile, to 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence

In Malacca, a state within Penninsular Malayasia, the whole plant is crushed and used as a poulstice for the treatment of boils.

Synonyms Cymbidium lycopodioides (J.König) Willd. 1805; *Epidendrum lycopodioides J.König 1791; Iridorchis anceps (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis anceps (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia anceps Lindl. 1838; Oberonia ancipita Náves 1880; Oberonia griffithii Wight 1851; Oberonia imbricata Wight 1851; Oberonia imbricatiflora J.J.Sm. 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Oberonia anceps; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as O anceps; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as O imbricata; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as O anceps drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as O imbricata drawing fide; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/85 as O imbricata; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as O anceps; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 4 1959 as O anceps; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 6 1978 as O anceps; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 as O anceps photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as O anceps; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as O anceps photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysian and Singapore Wood & Seidenfadden 1992 as O anceps drawing fide; A Checklist of Borneo Orchids Wood & Cribb 1994 as O anceps; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 as Oberonia anceps; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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