Oberonia pachyrachis Rchb.f. ex Hook.f. 1894 SUBGENUS Oberonia Photo by © Orchidarium Pl.Website

Common Name The Broad Rachis Oberonia - In China Bian Ting Yuan Wei Lan

Flower Size .04" [1mm]

Found in the western Himalayas, the Chinese Himalayas and Yunnan China, the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations around 850 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a very short, tufted stem carrying ensiform, slightly falcate, tapering to base, acute leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, axillary, verticiliate, stout, broad, compressed, becoming, fleshy, terete, tapering, adnate to the leaf apex, densely many flowered inflorescencewith ovate-orbicular, iregularilly deeply serrate floral bracts with flowers that are sunken into the rachis

Synonyms Iridorkis pachyrachis (Rchb.f. ex Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Oberonia umbraticola Rolfe 1909

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing ok; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok;

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