Oberonia acaulis Griff. 1851SUBGENUS Oberonia Photo by Bhutan Orchid Adventures Website

Common Name The Stem-Less Oberonia

Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]

Found in China, Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations of 1000 to 1650 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 3 to 5, linear-ensiform, falcate, acuminate, unequal leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an axillary, verticiliate, long, slender, terete, decurved, 6.4 to 14.8" [16 to 37 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with distant linear bracts and lanceolat, acuminate, erose-fimbriate floral bracts

Synonyms Iridorkis myriantha (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis myriantha (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Malaxis sikkimensis (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia acaulis var. luchunensis S.C.Chen 1982; Oberonia hosseusii Schltr. 1906; Oberonia myriantha Lindl. 1859; Oberonia quinquelobata Kerr 1927; Oberonia sikkimensis Lindl. 1859;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as O hosseusii; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as O myriantha; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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