Oberonia platycaulon Wight 1851
SUBGENUS Oberonia Photo by © The Enchanting Kerala Website
Drawing Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Broad Stemmed Oberonia
Flower Size .04" [1 mm]
Found in southern India at elevations above 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a stem enveloped completely by imbricate leaf sheath bases carrying linear, sometimes falcate, acute to obtuse leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a thick, erect, flattened and adnate tothe uppermost leaf peduncle to 4.4" [11 cm] long, rachis to 3.8" [9.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Iridorkis platycaulon (Wight) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis platycaulon (Wight) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia bisaccata Manilal & C.S.Kumar 1984
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Indian Orchids, A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 Drawing ok; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing ok; Orchid Monographs Vol 4 Ansari & Balakrishnan 1990 drawing fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as O bisaccata drawing fide
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