Oberonia caulescens Lindl.1830

SUBGENUS Oberonia Photo by © Kinmatsu

Common Name The Offshoot Forming Oberonia

Flower Size .1" [2 to 3 mm]

Found in Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, China and Vietnam at elevations of 1600 to 2600 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with winged stems carrying 4 to 5, linear-ensiform, acute to acuminate, slightly fleshy, sessile, jointed leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on an axillary, erect, subdense, verticulate towards the base, terete, winged, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Iridorchis caulescens (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis caulescens (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Oberonia auriculata King & Pantl. 1898; Oberonia bilobatolabella Hayata 1914; Oberonia longilabris King & Pantl. 1895; Oberonia pterorachis C.L.Tso 1933; Oberonia yunnanensis Rolfe 1903;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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