Oberonia prainiana King & Pantl. 1895 SUBGENUS Menophyllum

Plant and Flower Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

Common Name Prain's Oberonia [English Botanist in India 1800's]

Flower Size .05" [1.25 mm]

Found in the Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Thailand, Malaysia and Java at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short, pendant stem carrying non-jointed, oblong-ovate, acute, compressed leaves that blooms in the spring on a verticilliate, terete, 4.2" [11 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, subentire to irregularly serrate, sparsely gland-dotted floral bracts.

Synonyms Oberonia brunnescens Ridl. 1896

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Orchids of Penninsualr Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 darwing fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok

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