Oberonia recurva Lindl. 1839 SUBGENUS Menophyllum Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Common Name The Recurved Oberonia

Flower Size .04" [1 mm]

Found in tha Chinese Himalayas, Assam, Darjeeling, Sikkim, India and Sri Lankha in tropical valleys at lower elevations as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a fan of 3 to 4, ensiform-lanceolate, tapering to an acute apex, straight to weakly falcate, imbricate basally leavest that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect to decurved, 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long, densely many flowered, terete, grooved inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, subacute, crenulate to entire floral bracts

Synonyms Iridorchis gardneriana (Thwaites) Kuntze 1891; Iridorchis recurva (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis recurva (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Malaxis setifera (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia gardneriana Thwaites 1861; Oberonia setifera Lindl. 1859;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids fo Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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